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“How to Build a Life” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Click here to listen to his new podcast series on all things happiness, How to Build a Happy Life. You wanted it and you worked for it, but all your effort was …

If you stick around long enough, the next opportunity to cash in on the digital marketplace will present itself in due time. Currently, that next opportunity appears to be non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. In layman’s terms, NFTs are digital items like art, music, photos, and other digital assets that are …

A screengrab of FeedFeed’s homepage on Jan. 12, 2022. The site is the subject of a discrimination lawsuit from two women of color who are former employees.Screenshot: TheRoot A Black woman and a woman of South Asian descent are suing one of the Internet’s most popular foodie websites, alleging the …

Chick-fil-A is giving $5 million to 34 nonprofits across the United States to help Black Americans be game-changers in their communities. Grants from the 2022 Chick-fil-A True Inspiration Awards program will go to organizations that are Black-led or serve communities of color, the Atlanta-based company said in a statement. “Despite …

Photo: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin (Getty Images) All celebrities have internet trolls but there’s always one to take it a little too far. Latasha Kebe, known as unWinewithTashaK on YouTube is being accused of creating a “malicious campaign” against rapper Cardi B according to Insider. Kebe had uploaded a few videos claiming Cardi …

So far 2022 is proving to be a pain just 12 days in. This time the handsome couple otherwise known as actress Lisa Bonet and the 6-foot-4 Game of Thrones actor Jason Momoa are reportedly calling it quits after five years of marriage and 16 years together, PEOPLE reports. The two announced …

Photo: AP Photo (AP) Looks like the Senate is doing something right. The U.S. Senate passed a bill that will posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago who was murdered by white men in August 1955, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who wanted …

Here we go again: Award shows are being postponed, film festivals are canceling in-person events, and movie studios are reconsidering their release plans—at least for any films without web-slinging superheroes involved. But even as the coronavirus continues to threaten the entertainment industry, television is thriving. Many of the projects delayed …

Kanye West is on the move. He is reportedly making plans to visit Moscow where he will meet with Russia President Vladimir Putin and bring his Sunday Service traveling gospel experience there later this year. The confidant and strategic advisor for the artist also known as Ye, Ameer Sudan, told Billboard that …

Screenshot: WJLA Black Femicide US is a non-profit organization that was created in 2015 to track and bring awareness to the violence and murders against Black women and girls in the United States, according to their Instagram and Twitter pages. The founder is Rosalind Paige, a nurse and mother from …