By: Evette Champion In December, we ran a story about Lil Boosie fighting cancer. The rapper underwent surgery where he underwent surgery to remove part of his kidney removed as he aggressively fought for his life. He took to social media and asked his fans to show him “mercy and grace” by praying for him. […]
Health & Beauty
By: Evette Champion When it comes to gender, sexuality, and how we identify, the world is becoming more accepting, but people still have their reservations. You may have an idea of how you’d deal with the situation where your children come to you in confidence and reveal that they are either questioning their gender or […]
By: Evette Champion It’s hard to sit back and watch someone you love go through something as difficult as coping with a drug addiction. No one understands this more than Keyshia Cole. She has seen the ups and downs of addiction from her mother, Frankie, who has battled with her issues since Cole was a […]
By: Evette Champion Forget giving someone a little piece of your heart, a true sign of love is doing whatever it takes to get healthy again so that you can give your spouse a kidney. PJ Spraggins was a perfect match for his wife, Tracy who suffers from Lupus. As elated as the news must […]
By: Evette Champion Do you know what you would do if a loved one was in a coma for 33 years and then one day they come out of it? What kind of gift would you give them upon waking up? This is something that the family of Jean-Pierre Adams, a former France international whose […]
By: Evette Champion If you’ve got tickets to see Janet Jackson’s Unbreakable World Tour, you may not get to see it, as she may have to have a surgery to remove the tumor or some type of growth doctors found on her vocal chords. A source said, “Doctors found a growth of Janet’s vocal chords […]
By: Evette Champion The hospital is one of the last places you want to spend Christmas or your birthday at, but for little Amir, Omar Epps’ son, he was spending these big days in ICU with an oxygen tank. Though we don’t know why the 8-year old boy was in the hospital, Keisha Epps, the […]
By: Evette Champion What happens when you are so bogged down with work that in order to meet deadlines that you work for more than 30 straight hours, plying yourself with energy drinks and nothing much else? For one copywriter, Mita Duran, a 24-year old copywriter in Indonesia, she did just that… And did not […]
By: Evette Champion Back in September, Turing Pharmaceuticals caused a worldwide outrage when CEO Martin Shkreli increased the price for a drug called Daraprim, which is a medication AIDS patients need so their bodies can fight off infection. The pill was originally priced at $13.50 per pill, which is not cheap by any means, but […]
By: Evette Champion When you think of a celebrity whose beauty is flawless and natural, you might think of Beyonce. How could you not? For many, she is the epitome of what a beautiful, confident, and successful woman should be. However, if you’ve been living under a rock, there have been plenty of rumors that […]
By: Evette Champion When we see how women are represented in the media, whether it is a movie, music videos, or the movies, we see women who have underwent some kind of cosmetic surgery. They go under the knife to make their rear ends or boobs bigger, their waistline smaller, or have plumped up lips. […]
By: Evette Champion After dropping 117 pounds, Shonda Rhimes, the creator of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, is at her healthiest. In an interview with Extra, she said: “I just decided I was going to get it together and get healthy. I have some little kids, and I want to be around them.” Rhimes says that […]
By G. Brown It’s hard to digest mentally…bacon and sausage in the same category as arsenic and tobacco. But the World Health Organization (WHO) says some of our favorite breakfast meats are just as dangerous and cancer causing. It’s not just breakfast meats that are the problem, but cured and processed meats in general that […]
By: Evette Champion When you look at Zendaya, you probably see a 19-year-old girl who is in good health and is physically fit. So imagine the star’s surprise when she saw that the magazine photoshopped her pictures to make her hips and waist much smaller. Zendaya went so far to post side by side […]
By G. Brown It’s another sign of tough economic times and a changing communications landscape influenced by the digital age. Howard University’s WHUT held the distinction of being the only black-owned public television in the nation for 35 years. Now, the country’s top HBCU has less than three months to decide whether to auction […]
by G. Brown My how times have changed. Back in the days of Uncle Luke, the women in videos shaking their rumps were all natural, or at least remotely close. It seems harder for women to compete these days against the almost perfectly sculpted women of MTV, BET and even Instagram. The truth is, a […]
Black people don’t go to therapy. Mind you, this is a very general statement and some of you that are reading this saw that first sentence and said “I do!” or “I did!” or “They don’t?” In high school I was sent to three therapy groups and to this day can’t tell you why. Well, […]
By: Evette Champion Have you ever looked at a runway show during Fashion Week and wonder why there aren’t more women of color strutting their stuff down the catwalk? If so, you aren’t the only one. The founders of Trés Chic Model Management (TCM) is making black models’ dreams come true. The company was founded […]