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28 Nov

The Best Resorts and Spas to Book in 2023

The Best Resorts and Spas to Book in 2023
With cold weather and holiday stress on the way in which, tropical vacations and wellness retreats could also be top of mind. Luckily, a slate of recent openings and planned debuts in 2023 leave no shortage of places to go to. With treatment offerings galore — from traditional facials and massages, thermal suites, hammams and even educational experiences on the art of energetic love making — it could be best to go away no spa stone unturned. Susurros del Corazón, Auberge Resorts Collection Susurros del Corazón, Auberge Resorts Collection. Courtesy Auberge Resorts Collection This November, Auberge’s newest resort opened in Mexico on the coast of Punta de Mita. The brand new resort’s spa, Onda, will open early 2023 and have an array of wellness...
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1 Oct

Meet The Mom That Wrote ‘Hello Hair’, A Children’s

Meet The Mom That Wrote ‘Hello Hair’, A Children’s
It took 28-year-old Anita Grant greater than 20 years to let anyone outside of her close family see her natural hair. The Toronto, Canada native said it was because she’d seen mainstream media tout euro-centered beauty standards that made her feel like, as a black girl, she had to cover—a notion not unusual for her neighboring sisters within the US and beyond. Black women’s hair has been some extent of critique for hundreds of years. As TIME’s Areva Martin identified, the hate reached way back to when as when the US’s parent country, Britain determined that African hair was closer in texture to sheep’s wool than human. This wasn’t lost on Grant. Growing up, she found solace in reading popular 90s...
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14 Sep

Michelle Obama Proclaims Latest Book, ‘The Light We Carry’

Michelle Obama Proclaims Latest Book, ‘The Light We Carry’
Former First Lady Michelle Obama is now a two-time writer. The activist and philanthropist announced on Thursday that her second book, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times, will release on November 15, 2022. “I can’t consider it’s been a couple of years since I published my memoir, Becoming. And in that point, rather a lot has happened,” Obama said in a video she premiered on Good Morning America. “We’ve seen a world pandemic. We’ve seen an rebellion. A rising tide of hate, bigotry, intolerance, and an entire lot more. It’s often left me feeling just a bit of out of balance. I felt vulnerable, and yes, I felt afraid.” On this latest book, Obama poses the query “how will...
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6 Sep

YouTube Scrapped Planned Creator Payments Revamp After Shooting, In

YouTube Scrapped Planned Creator Payments Revamp After Shooting, In
For years, YouTube was working toward a revamp of its payment system for creators. Then, in 2018, the corporate killed it, in response to the brand new book “Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination” by Bloomberg Technology reporter Mark Bergen. The corporate faced a serious advertiser boycott in 2017 over YouTube’s content moderation policy and efforts, and particularly the undeniable fact that it couldn’t appear to stop commercials from appearing on extremist content from the likes of ISIS. YouTube reacted by adjusting its systems to remove ads from any videos considered remotely controversial. Some creators lost as much as 80% of their ad revenue, Bergen writes.  ...
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