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Michelle Obama is reportedly getting into the digital content game, partnering with Reach Higher education to launch an IGTV series focused on students’ first year of college. Produced by media company ATTN:, A Year of Firsts is slated to highlight the trials and tribulations of students as they begin their …

(Photo:David Ryder/Getty Images) A swastika pendant. An image of a cross-burning on a baby onesie and a backpack with neo-Nazi meme. That’s just a sampling of the products available to Amazon shoppers according to two watchdog groups. The online retail giant is failing to adhere to its own policies by …

She is among the most photographed, most athletic, most stunningly talented and graceful, gifted, and resilient artists in the world today and Misty Copeland is going to be among the amazing speakers who will grace the stage at the 2020 Women of Power Summit. The ballerina, known for her pioneering …

While the main symptoms of Crohn’s disease involve the digestive tract, the condition can also affect other parts of the body, such as the eyes. As eye tissue is similar to the tissue elsewhere in the body, inflammatory diseases can affect it in similar ways. Crohn’s disease is one of …

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Courtesy of Maya Pope-Chappell Maya Pope-Chappell, a senior editor at LinkedIn, is the host and producer of an online series called How I Got Here where she interviews successful people about the zigs and zags along their career paths. Recently, Chappell chatted with theGrio to talk about how she got here. The …

It may be a new decade, but 50 Cent is still hellbent on settling old grudges and debts. The rapper has filed new court documents in an effort to get the money Teairra Mari owes him. According to documents obtained by The Blast, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson claims Mari …

Just a few cheaters holding a Russian spy helmet.Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images) If the whiteballing of former quarterback Colin Kaepernick isn’t enough to boycott the NFL how about Beyoncé’s husband crossing the picket lines to bring us a halftime show starring Jennifer Lopez and Shakira? The NFL is so …

Bronchitis is inflammation of the bronchial tubes in the lungs, while pneumonia causes inflammation in the air sacs of the lungs, which doctors call the alveoli. Both infections affect breathing and can cause intense pain and coughing, but there are some important differences between them. Read on to learn more …

Martin Lawrence is opening up about why his iconic hit show Martin came to an abrupt ending. In 2018, Lawrence and his co-stars Tisha Campbell, who played his girlfriend in the sitcom, and Tichina Arnold, reunited for the first time in two decades after Campbell’s controversial sexual harassment lawsuit against …