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15 Jan

Color of Change Calls on Retailers to Audit Potentially

Color of Change Calls on Retailers to Audit Potentially
Color of Change is looking on retailers to drag and audit their Black hair product assortments following an October study by The National Institutes of Health that found using chemical hair straighteners — or relaxers, which is most prevalent amongst Black women — is related to an increased risk of uterine cancer. The study, which included data from 33,497 U.S. women ages 34 to 74, found that ladies who reported frequent use of hair-straightening products (defined as over 4 times within the previous yr), were greater than twice as prone to develop uterine cancer than their counterparts. The study notes that while uterine cancer only accounts for roughly 3 percent of all cancer cases and is thus considered “relatively rare,”...
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9 Nov

If Your Days Are Consistently Stressful, Change The Way

If Your Days Are Consistently Stressful, Change The Way
Klaus Vedfelt/DigitalVision/Getty Images September is Self-Care Awareness Month. To watch it, every week we’re speaking with experts in mental health and wellness to supply actionable ways to practice self-care that prioritize emotional wellbeing. I’m sure we’ve all been guilty of it. You get up within the morning and the very first thing you do is pick up your phone. Perhaps it starts as a method to check the time, to ensure you haven’t overslept, but then it slowly devolves into you responding to a message, peeking at your emails, checking in with the goings on of social media and the day’s breaking news. Before you understand it, whatever energy comes from those spaces impacts your mood. Your day either gets off to a...
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4 Nov

First Look: Latest Docuseries Examines How Black Women Have

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Black Women Black Women Actress Meagan Good is ready to look in an upcoming three-part docuseries on Black women’s impact on the sweetness industry premiering November 25. The Black Beauty Effect follows the evolution, revolution, and disruption going down inside the realm of beauty. Each hour-long episode will examine a special aspect of the industry – hair, skin, and makeup – through the lens of a number of the beauty’s most notable game-changers. “I’m so excited concerning the release of this documentary and humbled to be a part of it,” Good said in an announcement. “I like that we get to look at Black beauty in all facets! Especially because for thus long a lot of us have been told we don’t reach...
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21 Oct

Latest US-Caribbean Partnership Is Addressing Climate Change, Strengthening Diplomacy

Latest US-Caribbean Partnership Is Addressing Climate Change, Strengthening Diplomacy
Mia Mottley/ Twitter.com Vice President Kamala Harris met with Caribbean leaders in Washington, D.C., to debate details of a latest partnership meant to deal with a few of the region’s most pressing needs, including access to finance, food production, energy security and climate change. The September 15 meeting at Blair House included the leaders of 5 Caribbean countries: Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados, Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley of Trinidad and Tobago, President Irfaan Ali of Guyana, President Luis Abinader of the Dominican Republic and President Chan Santokhi of Suriname. This meeting is a vital follow-up to the partnership commitments made by the Biden-Harris administration to the Caribbean on the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles in June. Article continues after video.  The push to...
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