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Kamala Harris Reintroduces Bill Addressing the Black Maternal Healthcare Crisis
U.S. Senator Kamala Harris reintroduced the Maternal Care Access and Reducing Emergencies (Maternal CARE) Act on Wednesday, her 2018 bill that seeks to address the ongoing black maternal health crisis. “Black mothers across the country are facing a health crisis that is driven in part by implicit bias in our health care system. We must…
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What Lies Beneath: Hypnotherapy Is Helping Me Get to the Bottom of My Depression
I’m afraid I’m going to fart in front of my therapist. Specifically, I’m afraid I’m going to fall asleep during therapy, and fart in my sleep (and don’t act like you never fart in your sleep, because you do). For all I know, I already have at some point during the past 10 months I’ve…
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#MeToo Movement Takes on the Big Mac of Sexual Harassment Claims
A group of 10 women who worked for McDonald’s restaurants in nine different U.S. cities, including four teenagers, filed federal sexual harassment charges against the fast-food behemoth on Tuesday. The women charge gender discrimination, sexual harassment on the job and being punished with retaliation when they complained about it. One of the women, Brittany Hoyos,…
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Sky's the Limit—Brooklyn to Rename Street in Honor of the Late Notorious B.I.G.'s 47th Birthday
Baby, Bay-bayyy! On the blessed day of May 21, 1972, Christoper George Latore Wallace, who would grow to be a man of many names—Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, Big Poppa, and more—was born. This year, 2019, marks what would’ve been the late legendary rapper’s 47th trip around the sun. Now, Brooklyn will immortalize him in a…
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Is Dating Getting Young People in the Door to Therapy? These Experts Say Yes
Dating is hard. Anyone who says otherwise is probably lying or not a millennial. Whether the reason is we’re too busy to find someone, too uncomfortable to get out there (one time for the awkward black girls!), or a whole host of other reasons, more and more young people are finding it harder to settle…
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Milwaukee County Declares Racism a Public Health Crisis. Will More Cities Follow Suit?
In what’s being touted as an important first step in addressing decades of race-based inequality, Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele signed a resolution Monday declaring racism a public health crisis. “Everybody has been reading and hearing about the same set of statistics in Milwaukee for decades,” Abele said at yesterday’s signing, according to the Milwaukee…
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Rape Trial Begins for Former NFL Pro Kellen Winslow Jr.
Former NFL player Kellen Winslow Jr.’s trial begins Monday amid charges of lewd conduct, indecent exposure, and raping two women last year, as well as the sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl in 2003 when she was unconscious. Winslow Jr., 35, has pleaded not guilty to all 12 counts brought against him by five women.…
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Get Your Mind Right: A Guide to ‘New Age’ Therapies for Mental Wellness
There are a million ways for a girl to get her mind right. Some nights she might permit her waist to recklessly abandon it all on a dance floor. Some days it requires a flight to blue skies and even bluer waters (funds permitting). Many times, though, it happens in someone’s chair. A therapist’s. A…
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Magic Johnson Claims 'Betrayal' and 'Backstabbing' as Reasons He Abruptly Left the Los Angeles Lakers
The Los Angeles Lakers front office and, subsequently the team, are a hot flaming bag of old Kobe rap lyrics. The Lakers brass must’ve forgotten that Magic Johnson is not only a NBA Hall of Fame point guard, he owns half of black America and has a son that stunts in stilettos. Meaning, Magic Johnson…
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2019 Peabody Awards: Pose and Random Acts of Flyness Among Honorees, FX to Debut Documentary TV Special on Winners
The 78th Annual Peabody Awards ceremony kicked off on Saturday, May 18 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City, and the category was…representation matters! Among the Peabody’s 30 honorees were FX’s hit show Pose and HBO’s critically acclaimed Random Acts of Flyness. The winners ranged from various mediums within entertainment such as television, documentaries,…