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6 Oct

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 apprehensive. She simply attributed it to the traditional wear and tear of being a wife and mother of three who was energetic 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 continually stuck in my throat,” she tells ESSENCE. When she attempted to take a step back from some commitments and handle herself, things only got worse. “The fatigue intensified and I started quickly losing a big amount of weight although I could now not work out,” she...
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1 Oct

Oscar Grant’s Mom And Wellness Experts Offer Suggestions On

For the primary time, ESSENCE Festival of Culture held spaces for Black men and boys, offering thought-provoking conversations about them. Wellness House drew several men to the “Joy Sanctuary” on Friday afternoon for a panel discussion on raising Black males, loving them and what it could be wish to grieve them. The moderator was radio personality Maria More, the host of the Wellness House conversations and a mother to sons. Panelists included Rev. Wanda Johnson, the mother of Oscar Grant, who was shot and killed while unarmed in 2009 by a transportation officer in Oakland’s Fruitvale Station. There was also Arnold James, PhD, licensed clinical psychologist in Recent Orleans, and Brandy Stinson, a licensed Clinical Social Employee out of Atlanta. Based...
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1 Oct

Woman Says Her Boyfriend Got Her Mom Pregnant: WATCH

Checking out one's partner has been unfaithful is heartbreaking, especially in the event that they cheated with someone familiar. On TikTok, a girl went viral revealing her now-ex-boyfriend, John, had an affair along with her own mother — and even got her pregnant.Vanessa made the shocking revelation while on vacation. Now, she's trying "to heal" from the betrayal."It began after I was on a woman's trip in Mexico. Roe v. Wade just got overturned that morning and I used to be calling all the ladies in my life simply to see how they were and to ascertain on them," she shared."After I got to my mom she was obviously distraught, crying. I didn't think anything of it because she's a...
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1 Oct

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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