“Your body is perfectly yours, even if it ain’t perfect to anybody else. If you only knew the complexities your body possesses you would be so proud of it.”
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All About Your BodyBody ImageCeleb Watch
Detoxes are dumb, leave Lizzo alone, and other thoughtful things
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Health and Health CareSocial Construct
Hell naw, Black people don’t trust the vaccine. But here’s how you fix that.
Medical science has an abysmal track record with Black America. There simply isn’t any other way to put it. There’s the time when scientists deliberately watched Black men with syphilis suffer and denied them care as a means of testing the ramifications of the illness. But there’s more than that. So, so much more.
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Research is showing that diseases largely associated with approaching retirement age are being found well before we would normally expect. Conditions that are normally found in 50 and 60 year olds are being uncovered in younger and younger people.
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Perhaps we need to consider that “incel” is, when looked at through a lens that doesn’t merely fixate on white men, a term that includes a lot of the behavior that we see displayed in our community every day.
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Race and WellnessSocial Construct
No, food is not ‘just food’ in the Black community, and that’s okay.
Recipes are more than roots in a rich family tree still bearing fruit, they’re connection to the people who loved us. That’s more than food—that’s Soul Food.
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Health and Health CareHealth NewsSocial ConstructThe "Study" GuideThe Op-Eds
The Empathy Gap: Coronavirus is hitting Black communities harder than anyone else. Of course it is.
It’s too easy to blame Black people’s rates of heart disease and diabetes for the high rate of COVID-19 related mortality. It’s so, so much deeper than that.
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Debunking The MythsSocial ConstructThe "Study" GuideThe Op-Eds
The Truth About Why There Aren’t Any Grocery Stores in the ‘Hood
People will tell you any old self-hating nonsense about why there aren’t any good grocery stores in the hood. It’s time to learn the truth.
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Celebrating the decades of work of Jessica B. Harris, a phenomenal author who chronicles the history of Black food culture.