Black Women at Greater Risk of Cervical Cancer
Cervical cancer is not only preventable but treatable but Black women have a higher mortality rate. Find out why this Cervical Health Awareness Month.
Cervical cancer is not only preventable but treatable but Black women have a higher mortality rate. Find out why this Cervical Health Awareness Month.
This is the time to begin reviewing and setting strategies to ensure that one’s goals and objectives for the new year are clearly spelled out, with steps in place to achieve them.
Our home is a beautiful fusion of traditional Black American Christmas soul and vibrant Ghanaian festivities. In our blended home, harmony isn’t just a nice idea, it’s the foundation that helps our children grow up knowing their heritage is a gift, not something they ever have to choose between.
Motherhood always comes with questions, but raising children in the African diaspora adds even more questions: How do I teach them where they’re from while helping them thrive where they are?
“the liberation of the African mind, the empowerment of the African character, and the enlivenment and illumination of the African spirit.”
While I personally enjoy the festivities that come with this time of year, I know there is a crucial, often darker perspective to consider: the relentless cultural demand for endless cheer. This hides a very tough mental health challenge that stems less from the changing weather and much more from overwhelming social and familial expectations.
The act of philanthropy is a common denominator that is seen across many Black diaspora’s whether they are from Africa or Afro-Caribbean origins, especially in the United States, where the Black diaspora community have leveraged the holiday season as an opportunity to give back to their communities back home through several philanthropic gestures as well as explore initiatives that fosters progress within the very localities they reside in diaspora.
It is already November, which means we have only a few weeks left until January first arrives, carrying that tremendous, collective weight of mandatory self-improvement.
In Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, barbershops in the town become homes where men find opportunities to bond, receive mentorship and guidance, discover valuable life lessons to address varied issues, and, above all, receive the mental, emotional, and healing support they need to become better men in society.
With names like ‘Let Me Be Onyx’ and ‘Not a Kare-n-the World,’ Dr. Nicole Rayfield’s building a bold brand and a nail polish empire.