Protect Your Glow: Don’t Sleep on Sunscreen!
Sunscreen is a must. I do not care how young, how gifted or how black you think you are, it’s the lotion none of us can afford to forget.
The Key to Cutting High Blood Pressure in Black Men Might Be in the Barbershop
The barbershop is about as multifunctional a space as they come: a place to get a lineup, a shave, or a cut and color; a place to unwind; a place to catch up on the news—and now, according to a new study, a place to cut your blood pressure.
How to Face-Tune Like a Red-Carpet Regular, Part 2: Before Plastic Surgery, Live the Laser-and-Peel Life
My Glow Up goddesses! You asked, and I got the answers on the best chemical peels and lasers for darker skin tones.
Formerly Fat: How Bariatric Surgery Helped Me Transform My Life
On a break while shopping for Black Friday deals, a friend and I sat down for lunch in the Detroit suburbs. My friend quickly observed how I only ate half of my burger and picked over my loaded baked potato. I shrugged.
Open-Heart Surgery Isn’t Going to Stop This 15-Year-Old From Dancing
It’s a beautiful sight to see: a 15-year-old dancing from his hospital bed, living life to the fullest. And the video was taken only six days after the young man had lifesaving open-heart surgery.
45 Years After the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ended, the Legal Fallout Lives On in Federal Court: Report
It has been some 45 years since the horrific “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male,” also known as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, came to an end after it was exposed that medical workers, working with the U.S. Public Health Service, were withholding treatment from nonconsenting and unsuspecting black…
Chirlane McCray on ‘the Invisible Disease’
The saying goes, “Healthy mind, healthy body.” But how often do we tend, acknowledge and nurture our mental health?
Family of Henrietta Lacks Seeks Compensation for Unauthorized Use of Her Cells
The story of Henrietta Lacks and her “immortal” cells is not quite over. Her eldest son, Lawrence Lacks, has come forth requesting compensation from Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University and possibly other institutions for the unauthorized use of the famous cells that prompted decades of medical advances.
