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Dissatisfied with the conventions of popular dating apps, two Houston natives are looking to change the game with a new platform designed to better translate conversational nuances to virtual methods of communication. Wingr, launched by Jaeron “Jay” Cooper and Howard Edwards in January 2022, is a free dating app with features …

Dissatisfied with the conventions of popular dating apps, two Houston natives are looking to change the game with a new platform designed to better translate conversational nuances to virtual methods of communication. Wingr, launched by Jaeron “Jay” Cooper and Howard Edwards in January 2022, is a free dating app with features …

Few people in the world know what it’s like to be an athlete at the top of one’s game—and even fewer have found themselves in the middle of a firestorm for daring to express their convictions. It’s an experience former NFL player-turned-activist Colin Kaepernick and tennis phenom and mental health …

Top 3 playlist Black people have traditionally used quilts to tell their stories. Harriett Powers, for example, born into slavery in 1837, created the much-lauded “Bible Quilt” that hangs in the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian. The quilts of Gee’s Bend, an Alabama Black community whose tradition with quilts dates …

Within weeks of the June 2020 announcement of the 10-year Yeezy x Gap collaboration, the artist then known as Kanye West was prepared to “walk away”—or at least, he threatened to, while campaigning for his doomed presidential run that July. As a result of the stunt, Gap shares, which had …

Rachel Rodgers, author of We Should All Be Millionaires: A Woman’s Guide To Earning More, Building Wealth, and Gaining Economic Power and founder of Hello Seven, a coaching company that helps a largely Black clientele make money through entrepreneurship, was the first Black woman who made me feel like I …

NEW YORK (AP) — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois,” her epic novel about racism, resilience and identity named for the influential Black scholar and activist, has received the fiction prize from the National Book Critics Circle. The critics circle praised Jeffers for “weaving several centuries’ …

When the Met Gala returns to the steps of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on the first Monday of May 2022, so will one of our most beloved and revered stars. On Thursday, it was announced that Regina King will be joining Lin-Manuel Miranda, Blake Lively and Ryan …

A five-acre plot of land along the Chesapeake Bay will soon be turned into a water access park where people can come to learn about Black history in the state of Maryland. According to WTOP, the Elktonia Beach area was once a haven in summer for Black celebrations and entertainment. …

Aunjanue Ellis. Quinta Brunson. Chanté Adams. Nia Long. Each is a uniquely gifted talent and almost all are household names—in Black households, at the very least. And, as we ramp up to the 2022 Academy Awards on March 27, each is being honored with an Essence Black Women in Hollywood …