:quality(85):upscale()/2024/10/04/866/n/43463692/ffc6ba926700463dd717c7.40904912_.jpg "Packing Essentials For NYC’s VMAs")
While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here. As someone who calls herself a geriatric millennial influencer, attending the MTV Video Music Awards felt like stepping into a dream … Read more
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Whether you’re bouncing from fete to fete during Crop Over, or visiting the country on vacation at any time of year, Barbados has plenty of attractions to get into. Regardless of when you’re there, there are a few experiences it would be remiss not to recommend. Stay somewhere nice. The Caribbean is well known for … Read more
:quality(85):upscale()/2024/09/12/810/n/3019466/fb930fa166e3325e020c13.24217184_.jpg "My Grandmother’s Love Story Shaped My Idea of Black Love")
Family PhotoFamily Photo I was 13 years old when I learned my grandmother’s lifelong love was not my grandfather. As a kid, I spent summers with my grandma in New Rochelle, a suburb of New York City. I found peace in her quiet, quaint apartment. Our favorite pastime was going through her photo albums hidden … Read more
:quality(85):upscale()/2024/08/13/581/n/43463692/5d07e3fd66bb585b7c4159.73715090_.png "Trell Thomas’s Packing Guide For New Orleans")
Kai ByrdKai Byrd While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here. In “Pack With Me,” influencers and editors give us a rundown of their travel must-haves and a few … Read more
:quality(85):upscale()/2024/07/26/805/n/1922507/6768ec2566a3e8c7995454.46433577_.jpg "Best Black FemTech Apps and Websites For Women’s Health")
The Black community has always had a tumultuous relationship with US health care, largely shaped by historical events that have displayed the industry’s blatant racism towards the community. Those include well-known examples, from unethical medical experiments — like the Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee — to instances of non-consensual cell harvesting, as was the case … Read more
:quality(85):upscale()/2024/07/02/835/n/43463692/96134f6366844efc6800d6.06104959_.jpg "How Black Women Campers Are Reclaiming the Outdoors")
The first time Shunte’ Mcclellan went camping, she was skeptical about spending a weekend in the backwoods of Georgia. Invited by her friend Cayela Wimberly White, Mcclellan showed up with an air mattress that refused to stay inflated and a tent that seemed to plot against her. But over the course of that weekend, she … Read more
