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30 Apr

The Most Practical Mother’s Day Gifts 2023 from Amazon

The Most Practical Mother’s Day Gifts 2023 from Amazon
Mother’s Day 2023 lands on Sunday, May 14. And while that looks as if ample time to pick, purchase, and wrap a present, it’s easy for the times to creep up on you — after which suddenly, it’s an hour before brunch and also you’re racing to purchase a half-dead, overpriced bouquet of flowers. It’s easy to postpone this gift-finding process because selecting a Mother’s Day present is hard. What do you purchase the one who raised you? Apart from a swanky five-star vacation, it appears like an inconceivable task — especially should you’re not desirous about draining your savings. Thankfully, we’ve cracked the code. Before adding something to your virtual shopping cart, ask yourself the next query: Is that...
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17 Dec

Teresa Caldwell, Bow Wow’s Mom, Gets Candid About Surviving

Teresa Caldwell, Bow Wow’s Mom, Gets Candid About Surviving
Teresa Caldwell Photo by Kelley Raye Teresa Caldwell can call herself a domestic violence survivor—and an writer—helping other women overcome emotional and physical abuse. Caldwell re-released her book I Once Was Her, which details her life story, her experience with intimate partner violence, and the way she fought to beat her trauma. Along with her advocacy work, the  multi-hyphenate is the previous momager to her son Bow Wow and an entrepreneur. Caldwell is quick to indicate that there must be a cultural and mindset shift in relation to domestic abuse. For the Black community, this month needs to be of particular importance—in keeping with the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, “[d]ue to systemic racism, racist policies, and racist societal structures, each Black women and Black...
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3 Dec

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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16 Nov

Nicole Bullock Attributed Her Extreme Fatigue And Throat Pain

Nicole Bullock Attributed Her Extreme Fatigue And Throat Pain
Michelle Dokes Photography When Chicago native Nicole Bullock first noticed that she wasn’t feeling like her normal self in the summertime of 2016, she wasn’t initially nervous. She simply attributed it to the conventional wear and tear of being a wife and mother of three who was lively in her community. However the symptoms weren’t just normal fatigue. It was extreme tiredness, along with weight reduction, night sweats and “a sensation that something was consistently stuck in my throat,” she tells ESSENCE. When she attempted to take a step back from some commitments and care for herself, things only got worse. “The fatigue intensified and I started quickly losing a major amount of weight although I could not work out,” she...
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