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Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make While You’re Young
You’re 25-years old and have your whole life ahead of you, or at least that’s the plan. You also have been firmly convinced that you know everything. Let me tell you, you don’t. But for those who’d like to listen, here is a little advice from old folks about mistakes you do not want to [...]
Dangerous “Cinnamon Challenge” Puts Teen in the Hospital with a Collapsed Lung
Taking the “cinnamon challenge” sounds harmless enough, like something fun to do. But after hearing all the warnings, you start to think that maybe it’s a warped name for some kind of new drug, like Molly. But this warning, which comes directly from the journal Pediatrics, actually involves the spice cinnamon (the same one [...]
Nike Supports First Lady Obama In Bringing ‘Let’s Move’ To 50,000 U.S. Schools
First Lady, Michelle Obama, is getting help from an unlikely source, to continue her “Let’s Move Active Schools! ” campaign. Nike has jumped on board to help fund the campaign, which Obama hopes will get children moving, in more than 50,000 U.S. Schools. The “Let’s Move Active Schools!” fitness campaign was started by Obama three [...]
Activists Attack the Horrible Practice of “Breast Ironing”
In Cameroon, breast flattening or breast ironing, is considered a human rights violation by the Friends of the United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA). The practice involves flattening a young girls b*****s with highly-heated stones, pestles, spatulas or coconut shells. It is often carried out by an older female relative. Almost 4 million young women in Cameroon [...]
Three Ways to Tell Your Partner that You’re Pregnant
by JR. Roberts Finding out that you are pregnant is only the first step on an emotional journey. Hopefully, you are excited to hear the news and you will need to tell your partner that you are pregnant. So what is the best way to do it? Some people would prefer to use a skywriter [...]
“Black Girls Workout Too” New Workout DVD
Ellen and Lana Ector have transformed their popular workout group classes into a home workout DVD. The Atlanta-based mother-and-daughter fitness duo has put together “Black Girls Workout Too”, the wanted to debunk the myth that black women do not workout. Statistics show that 4 out of 5. African-American women are overweight or obese. This exercise [...]
New Laws Forbid Skeletal Models
Ayvaunn Penn, Your Black World Laws demanding that models to be a certain weight for health’s sake are a growing trend across the world. With Israel having the latest law that went into effect on the first of January, Americans are starting to wonder what is in store for U.S. models. Israel’s new law was [...]
Why More Africans Bleach Their Skin
Ayvaunn Penn, Your Black World For African-Americans the idolization and attraction to white skin began on the plantations. For South Africans, it began during apartheid when their country was colonized and ruled by whites. One would think that Africa would be where anyone of African decent could be proud of their skin pigmentation, but that [...]
Managing Editor of Ebony Magazine Dies
Terry Glover, the managing editor of Ebony magazine, has died of colon cancer at her Chicago home. She was 57. Ebony announced on its website that Glover died on Monday. Her husband, Kendall Glover, tells the Chicago Tribune that his wife had been fighting cancer for about two years. Terry graduated from Northwestern University, where [...]
Is the Black Community in Denial about STDs?
Studies released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention state that African Americans are leading the nation in a variety of types of STD infection. Most of your friends don’t announce to you when they are HIV positive. Also, millions of Americans have never been tested for Herpes, Syphilis, or many of the [...]