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A rare “natural experiment” from 1950s UK sugar rationing reveals that lower sugar exposure in the first 1,000 days of life may lead to healthier hearts and fewer cardiovascular events decades later. Research: Exposure to sugar rationing in first 1000 days after conception and long term cardiovascular outcomes: natural experiment study. Image Credit: ya_create / […]
I started running during the pandemic. The throws of a graduate program and rising racial tensions around the globe guided me to the rural trails of North Carolina’s state parks for comfort. I stayed running, however, because running taught me something about freedom that no textbook ever could. I am a Black woman and a […]
I started running during the pandemic. The throws of a graduate program and rising racial tensions around the globe guided me to the rural trails of North Carolina’s state parks for comfort. I stayed running, however, because running taught me something about freedom that no textbook ever could. I am a Black woman and a […]
I started running during the pandemic. The throws of a graduate program and rising racial tensions around the globe guided me to the rural trails of North Carolina’s state parks for comfort. I stayed running, however, because running taught me something about freedom that no textbook ever could. I am a Black woman and a […]
I started running during the pandemic. The throws of a graduate program and rising racial tensions around the globe guided me to the rural trails of North Carolina’s state parks for comfort. I stayed running, however, because running taught me something about freedom that no textbook ever could. I am a Black woman and a […]
I started running during the pandemic. The throws of a graduate program and rising racial tensions around the globe guided me to the rural trails of North Carolina’s state parks for comfort. I stayed running, however, because running taught me something about freedom that no textbook ever could. I am a Black woman and a […]
Rihanna celebrates the launch of Fenty Beauty at ULTA Beauty in Los Angeles, California. Getty Images for Fenty Beauty by Rihanna On June 19, 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to enforce President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, delivering freedom to enslaved people more than two years after its signing. That date, now celebrated as Juneteenth, marks […]
Image Credit: Maven Collaborative illustration This article is the second in a three-part series, Quiet Violence: How the Tax System Works Against Black Americans, co-produced by The Maven Collaborative and NPQ. This series explores how the taxation system’s “quiet violence” enacted against Black Americans leads not only to financial inequality but also to stolen legacies, […]
“All struggles of liberation are linked and interconnected. Whatever serves the cause of liberation in one area of this planet affects us.” —Martin Sostre Outside of prisons and the movements that work to abolish them, the life and legacy of Martin Sostre is little known. A Black Puerto Rican anarchist born in East Harlem, Sostre […]
By Busta Brown Alexia Mitchell started Reset and Heal mental health consulting company for a very personal and intimate reason. “I started my firm back in 2021, because being a Black woman and being raised by a Black woman, I saw how my mother didn’t put herself first. Her life was about going to work […]