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Top 10 Health Stories From 2022
By Alexa Spencer | Word In Black Credit: Markus Winkler / Unsplash (WIB) – This year, I was fortunate to sit down with some of public health’s most influential advocates — people like Rae Lewis-Thornton, who rallies for HIV prevention in the Black community, and attorney Benjamin Crump, who represents the victims of racist hate crimes. I’ve learned a lot from them about the state of health among African-Americans: We continue to be disproportionately impacted by diseases and conditions like COVID-19, HIV, stroke, breast cancer, suicide, and Alzheimer’s. It’s true, we’ve got a long way to go, but we’ve come a long way too. So many of our neighborhoods lack access to fresh fruits and vegetables, but Black…
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101 Natural Hair Stories from the Sisterhood
Photo: karelnoppe (Shutterstock) This previous Friday, the US Property handed laws that would ban race-centered discrimination in the workplace, and from those people participating in federally assisted applications, housing systems, and community lodging. The passing of the CROWN (Creating a Respectful and Open Earth for All-natural Hair) Act is a major stage in the ideal course for the security of people of colour as they navigate through their specialist and individual lives. While this defense ever so marginally trickles down to the little types we really like, small children of coloration are often victims of bullying and ostracized for the reason that of their purely natural hair, and no big…
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My Beautiful Black Hair: Celebrating Our Crowns Through 101 Empowering Stories
These days, it’s not uncommon to see Black women wearing their natural hair. Something unheard over twenty years ago. Back then, sporting one’s kinks, coils, and curls was not socially acceptable. Forcing women to chemically alter their hair texture. Giving them that desired bone, straight, European look, that attracted the eyes of many. This all changed with the onset of the “natural hair movement”. A mass exodus of women abandoning their coveted relaxers in favor of afros, braids, twists, locs, and cornrows. Giving them the space to embrace the hair that grew from their heads. Further allowing them to cultivate a newfound relationship with their curls. It was bold. It…
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Top stories on the product innovations in the APAC beauty space
1 – 1-phase showstopper: Serum that incorporates 11 actives aim to help customers confused by pores and skin treatment decisions India-primarily based attractiveness start off-up D’you believes the selection of solitary-ingredient pores and skin care goods have inadvertently designed much more confusion amid magnificence consumers and has produced an 11 active multitasking serum to tackle it. D’you is a beauty start out-up based in India that offers one product, a premium pores and skin care serum named Hustle (U$40). Inspite of staying only a calendar year outdated, the business has a repeat acquire price of up to 40{5c5ba01e4f28b4dd64874166358f62106ea5bcda869a94e59d702fa1c9707720} and is recording revenue after breaking even in its seventh month in…