holiday season
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12 Christmas Songs Where the 'Soul' Cover Is the Superior Version
When it comes to holiday classics and their covers, any song sung by Whitney Houston, Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie Wonder, or John Legend is going to be an improvement on the original. With these tried and true standards, black artists take holiday song traditions—remixing and redoing them—and create new classics out of something old and staid.…
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Alabama Sheriff’s Office Posts ‘Thugshot’ Xmas Tree and Is Shocked When People Don’t Think It’s Funny
Apparently, law enforcement officers in Mobile, Ala., don’t know how to read a room. Or at least that seems to be the case for deputies with the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, whose idea of lighthearted holiday humor was to post online a photo of a Christmas tree decorated with mugshots as ornaments and prison slippers…
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Here's to Giving Black: How to Be Intentional and Purposeful With Your #GivingTuesday Donations
Thanksgiving can be a complicated time for folks, even in non-pandemic circumstances. Sure, there’s fellowship and football, but also fraught family dynamics, ever-encroaching pressure to make good on sales and BUY ALL THE THINGS, plus the whole bullshit Pilgrim mythology. Giving Tuesday, which is celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving, comes a lot closer to…
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If You Didn’t Listen to The Preacher’s Wife Soundtrack, Did Christmas Even Happen?
Christmas has always been my favorite holiday. My family always cooked just as much food as they did on Thanksgiving, but I got presents as a bonus. Win-win. In my excitement, I was always first in line to help put up the Christmas tree and decorations for the year. Of course, once I was old…
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Motown Christmas Classics by The Supremes and The Temptations Get New Life with Animated Music Videos
Tis the season indeed. As the holiday season kicks off into high gear this week (with Black Friday and all), music lovers will get a chance to finally enjoy music videos of some of their favorite Christmas classics — albeit ad nauseam. UME — Universal Music Group’s global catalog company — has joined forces with…
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Real Life-Savers: Chicago-Area Churches Band Together to Wipe Out More Than $5 Million in Medical Debt for Thousands of Families
Close to 6,000 families in the Chicago area will be getting a life-changing gift just in time for the holidays: the clearing of their medical debts. A group of churches serving the Cook County community has banded together to buy and then forgive the medical debt of 5,888 families in need, according to the Chicago…
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Home for the Holidays? AphroChic Has Your Guide to Last-Minute Decorating
Jeanine Hays and Bryan Mason, better known as husband-and-wife interior design team AphroChic, are experts in making a house feel like home. Prior to building their 10-year-old blog-turned-brand, the two moved across the country together and back, making homes in Philly and San Francisco, before finally settling in their beloved adopted hometown of Brooklyn, N.Y.…
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Be Attentive, Be, Be Attentive: Treat Yourself to Some #SelfLove, Part 2
Editor’s note: Angela N. Holton, of online spiritual portal and self-development site Love Sanctuary, is a life coach joining The Glow Up to help and encourage our readers through a journey of self-love. Whether or not you feel like you’re struggling, Holton’s monthly essays and weekly action items are gentle, loving reminders to become the…