By Lucius Gantt For more than 40 years, I’ve been writing about how much money is spent in political campaigns and how nearly 97% of campaign dollars are spent with vendors of one race. In today’s column, I want to try and use an analogy to hopefully get you to understand why low voter turnout Read More…
Do Black Men have a problem with women with Short hair? HECK YEAH Recently, I’ve decided to chop off 2/3 of my natural hair that I’ve been growing for the last 7 years. Many people are asking, “Why would I do such a thing to such beautiful and lush hair?” And, I say with a Read More…
AfroArt Photo Series Challenges Beauty Standards with Young Black Models AUGUST 10, 2019 ANDREW LASANE All Images: Kahran and Regis Bethencourt. Styling by LaChanda Gatson, Shanna Thomasson and Angela Plummer Husband and wife photography duo Regis and Kahran Bethencourt of CreativeSoul Photography capture images of children that celebrate the beauty, culture, and heritage of afro hairstyles. Often Read More…
The Sky Bridge opened earlier this month in the Czech Republic and is claiming its title as the longest suspension walkway in the world, a record held previously by a similar design in Portugal. Strung between two peaks of the Kralicky Snezník mountain, the pedestrian path stretches an incredible 721 meters and reaches 95 meters above Read More…
Uvalde, Texas – Law enforcement officers who were at the scene are receiving backlash for doing nothing while barricading parents outside the school and preventing them from entering in order to save their children. Meanwhile, some of these same officers allegedly slipped in before that to rescue their own. Keep in mind that some angry parents Read More…
Belgium has introduced a mandatory 21-day quarantine for monkeypox patients as cases spread globally. The U.K. has also urged close contacts of monkeypox patients to self-isolate to stem a recent mysterious outbreak of the disease, which is typically endemic to Africa. The WHO has so far confirmed 92 cases of the disease in 12 countries, Read More…
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