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These days, headphones have seen an increase in popularity as they’ve experienced a resurgence due to changes brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. As more people return to work-from-home protocols, they found headphones to come in handy for sitting in on Zoom meetings and other online meeting mediums. With more …

Screenshot: The Pivot Despite the fact that in recent years, we’ve seen more and more top recruits opt to attend HBCUs in favor of big-name college programs, former NFL player Channing Crowder wasn’t drinking the Kool-Aid when he broached the subject in May with Jackson State head coach Deion Sanders. …

Just two weeks after fans said goodbye to Mollie Carter on Insecure, HBOMax has released the trailer for Yvonne Orji‘s next project. The actress and comedienne is set to host the streaming service’s latest reality series, a dating show called Your Mom, My Dad. According to Variety, the show stars a cast …

Photo: Brad Barket (Getty Images) After twelve years as the host of radio news show, ‘All Things Considered’, Audie Cornish is giving her notice. This past Tuesday, Cornish took to Twitter to announce her departure from the station. “I love my job,” she wrote. “I love the listeners of NPR …

An Illinois social worker was stabbed to death during a scheduled home visit on Tuesday. According to CBS Chicago, Deidre Silas conducted a home visit in Sangamon County after reports of six young children being endangered surfaced. Silas, 36, went to the home to investigate and was reportedly stabbed by …

Photo: ChiccoDodiFC (Shutterstock) What we won’t be doing in 2022? Allowing toxic work environments to dig early graves for Black women. As of late last year, the Baltimore Police Department is short four fewer Black female officers. The women include Danika Yampierre, Sgts. Jasmin Rowlett and Welai Grant and former …

The poet W. S. Merwin was—like many of us, perhaps—preoccupied with his own mortality. He wrote about it often, most famously in “For the Anniversary of My Death”: “Every year without knowing it I have passed the day / When the last fires will wave to me / And the …

On International Women’s Day in 2018, the Barbie brand launched its “Inspiring Women Series,” spotlighting historical women role models who opened doors for young girls to reach for the impossible.   This year, civil rights activist, journalist, and suffragette Ida B. Wells will have her likeness made into a signature doll …

Photo: Billion Images (Shutterstock) On January 6, 2022, NBC news addressed the recurring and controversial conversation about books by Black authors being banned in schools all around the U.S. Ironically, this story resurfaced on the anniversary of the coup that transpired a year prior. The most obvious connection between the …

During his 1964 acceptance speech for the Academy Award for Best Actor, Sidney Poitier, slightly winded from his trek to the stage, breathily asserted, “Because it is a long journey to this moment, I am naturally indebted to countless numbers of people.” Poitier’s labored emphasis on the “long journey to …