childhood
It was the year 2014 when the internet seemed to explode as it reacted to actor Raven Symoné’s comment about her sexual and racial identity. During an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Symoné said what many believed to be a statement denying her Blackness. The tension in the interview began to bubble when Winfrey asked Symoné […]
Welcome to Black Tastemakers, an occasional series that highlights African American excellence and influence on the Fayetteville-area food scene. Nominate Black culinary professionals and entrepreneurs by emailing tshook@gannett.com. At Popcorn-Is-Us in Fayetteville, an unassuming storefront gives way to a cozy interior, where the walls are a . . .
A new report says progress against childhood cancers has stalled in recent years for Black and Hispanic youth By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer November 15, 2023, 5:49 PM ET • 3 min read Advances in childhood cancer are a success story in modern medicine. But in the past decade, those strides have stalled […]
The first time I left Jamaica, I was seventeen. I’d graduated from high school two years before, and while trying to get myself to college I’d been scouted as a model. And so I found myself at the Wilhelmina Models office in Miami, surrounded by South Beach’s finest glass windows with all my glass hopes, […]
Patrick Sison, Associated Press This Tuesday, April 3, 2018, photo shows a closeup of a beam scale in New York. Utah youth have some of the lowest rates of obesity in the country. According to data from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the 2023 Kids Count data book from 2020-2021, one-third […]
10ChildrenLogos A Dutch project that aims to tell the story of poverty’s impact on the world . . .
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On the night of June 17, 1998, a Cornell campus police officer named Ellen Brewer had just begun her shift when she noticed a tall, silhouetted figure moving slowly across the engineering quad. The man appeared to be dressed all in black. Brewer felt a whisper of danger. She slowed her car, and the shrouded […]
U.S. Air Force Capt. Gerrod Smith, 36th Fighter Squadron F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot, poses for a photo at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Feb. 16, 2022. Smith joined the Air Force as a judge advocate, believing it was the highest path he could become as a Black Airman. […]
The teaser of upcoming episode of The Kapil Sharma Show, sees Akshay Kumar and comedian’s mother Janak Rani . It looks like it is going to be absolute fun and how as she revealed some childhood secrets of his. We see Akshay asking Kapil ‘s mother if she ever told him to . . .