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  • Om For Mom: Meditation And Mindfulness Hacks For Moms

    Being a new mom is a beautiful experience that also happens to be very difficult. We’ve asked working mom and wellness podcaster Brooke DeVard to provide a handful of meditation and mindfulness hacks for all the new (and not-so-new) moms out there. She uses Fitbit Sense to monitor her sleep and stress, while making sure…

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  • White Farmers Sue Federal Government Because Black People Truly Can’t Have Anything

    The recently passed COVID relief bill had $5 billion in provisions intended to help Black and brown farmers who have historically been the victims of systemic racism within the Department of Agriculture. Predictably, white folks have a problem with that and have filed a lawsuit against the federal government, claiming that they’re being discriminated against.…

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    Joe Jurado

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    Get Lifted: What Are the Real Benefits of a Meditation Practice?

    There has been a lot of talk about meditation in recent years. Everyone claims to be doing it, and countless apps have been created to help people with their practice, and introduce newcomers to its benefits. But what is meditation, exactly? According to Webster’s dictionary, the definition of meditation is: “to engage in mental exercise…

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    AskDrRenee

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    Slavery Yoga Was Taught to Kindergarteners in Delaware for Black History Month. No, Seriously.

    Just Saturday, I wrote in a report that “It’s about time we have a serious conversation about how a lot of white teachers have no business whatsoever teaching Black students.” I based this statement on three separate stories—all of which occurred during this Black History Month—involving white teachers being racist while downplaying and/or distorting narratives…

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    Zack Linly

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    28 Days Of Black Joy: Connecting Mind, Body and Spirit Through Yoga

    If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you know that I love yoga. I am especially a fan of vinyasa yoga, an aerobic style of yoga that works your core, shoulder and hip joints in ways many of us aren’t used to moving. I do it at least three or four times a…

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    Terrell Jermaine Starr

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    Eat, Pray, This Can’t Be Love

    John Singleton. Dead at 51. Stroke/Hypertension. Nipsey Hussle. Dead at 33. Murdered. Phife Dawg. Dead at 45. Diabetes. Paul Bromley. Alive at 35. Overweight and spiritually confused. Is my clock ticking? Sounds morbid right? Anxious? Yeah, I know … As a black man living in America, thinking about my mortality has become a new daily…

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    Paul A. Bromley

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  • Treat Yourself … to Some #SelfLove

    I’ll bet we’re more alike than different. I’ll bet there have been seasons in your life when you, too, have felt like you had been incredibly blessed with so much, yet still felt a gaping sense of something missing—and you couldn’t quite put your finger on it? For me, this mysterious blanket of emptiness became…

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    Angela N. Holton

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  • Starz’s American Gods Boasts a Hot Leading Man and a Goddess Who Swallows Men With Her Vagina

    It’s hard to explain American Gods, Starz’s bold new series, to most. Steeped in fantasy, mythology and Americana, American Gods explores immigrants and the gods and spirits they brought with them in a unique fashion. Apparently the modern world, with its new technology and other distractions, has diminished the significance of the old gods, and…

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    Ronda Racha Penrice

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  • Do Heathens Go to Heaven?

    I have a confession: Apparently, I need Jesus—or so I’ve been told. “Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior?” The grinning eyes of my cab driver inquire through the rearview mirror. I cringe. The gospel music I’d been enjoying a moment before suddenly feels invasive. I’m literally trapped in a conversation I’m…

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    Maiysha Kai

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