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Whether you have an e-commerce business that you’re looking to enhance or if you’re a brick-and-mortar business owner who would like to reach a broader audience, you more than likely need a website. While more access is available today to create a website, one usually has to have some knowledge of how …

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to supporters and members of the media after a bill signing on Nov. 18, 2021, in Brandon, Fla. DeSantis is taking the unusual step of asking his state’s Supreme Court to advise whether Democratic Rep. Al Lawson’s district can be broken up. For decades, Lawson’s …

To some people, Valentine’s Day encourages the notion that there is a blueprint for experiencing love—a pink greeting card, an appreciation post on Instagram, or a prix-fixe dinner. I find this notion stifling. To me, the holiday should instead provide an opportunity to rethink the rote role of romantic love …

Fast & Furious actor and singer Tyrese got heartbreaking news on Valentine’s Day that his mother Priscilla Murray has died. According to an Instagram message, Tyrese told his 15 million fans his mom’s fate after battling COVID-19 and pneumonia, and other health complications, according to reports. (Instagram @Tyrese) He posted …

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Wondering where in the world it’s both safe and stylish to go these days? A look at Sergio Hudson‘s collection for Spring/Summer 2022 brings one word to mind: Safari. Hudson, who very literally bodied Michelle Obama’s monochromatic, mulberry-colored topcoat-and-trousers look for Joe Biden‘s 2021 inauguration, is once again creating bold …

In 1770, the German chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele performed an experiment and noticed that he’d created a noxious gas. He named it “dephlogisticated muriatic acid.” We know it today as chlorine. Two centuries later, another German chemist, Fritz Haber, invented a process to synthesize and mass-produce ammonia, which revolutionized agriculture …

Photo: AdobeStock Like much of the rest of Black America, Antentor Hinton, Jr.’s reaction  to the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor was wanting to do something. His parents sensed it; that’s why they asked him a pivotal question. Photo: AdobeStock “They asked me to consider what I could …

Café Momentum — an award-winning nonprofit restaurant that provides 12-month paid internships and life-changing support to young people exiting the juvenile justice system — teamed up with the Players Coalition, a nonprofit founded by NFL players Anquan Boldin and Malcolm Jenkins. The restaurant is dedicated to making an impact on social …

This is the fifth installment in theGrio’s “Mighty Love” series, running through February. Read our first couple’s story here. “She took my breath away!” says Raymar Hampshire of the first time he saw his now-wife, Alicia. The two met in a quantitative skills prep program (aka “Math Camp”) in graduate school; that breathless …