Few words are more heart-wrenching to hear from your child than “I wish I didn’t look the way I do” or “I wish I wasn’t my race.” Those words can spring from a variety of painful experiences: A taunting on the playground for having “different” […]
The portfolio is titled, ‘Of Earth & Sky’ The idea of Rihanna’s latest project with multimedia artist Lorna Simpson is “reinterpreting modern-day glamour.” In an exciting collaboration, the singer and beauty business mogul joined forces with Simpson on a 12-page portfolio for Essence. Featured on the January/February cover, Rihanna told the […]
By Yasin Muhammad Although I haven’t grown up in a Christian household, the spirit of Christmas had always been attractive to me, at least the toys gifts, and fun on the holidays. I knew it represented the day Jesus was born but I didn’t know […]
OPINION—As an actor on Tyler Perry’s BET’s drama series The Oval, going back to work in the midst of COVD-19, and the current racial justice movement, is a daunting idea. However, I feel extremely excited. I know that for all the perils we face, Tyler […]
By Pam Belluck Researchers on Tuesday reported strong evidence that the coronavirus can be transmitted from a pregnant woman to a fetus. A baby born in a Paris hospital in March to a mother with Covid-19 tested positive for the virus and developed symptoms of inflammation in […]
(CNN)A combination of factors could make the Fourth of July a “perfect storm” of coronavirus infections, warned one doctor — but only for those who don’t choose to safely navigate the holiday weekend. Cities opening, people not following preventative guidelines and people traveling […]
By Hallie Levine My 12-year-old daughter, Jo Jo, blossoms over the summer. For her, it’s a time for camp, pool trips with friends, bonfires and dancing for hours on the beach at our town’s monthly “Sand Jams.” Last summer, she began going to the […]
By Priya Krishna Inside a low, brick-red building in Queens Village, a group of about 30 cooks has made and served more than 145,000 free meals in just 10 weeks. They arrive at 4 a.m. three days a week to methodically assemble vast quantities of […]
By Patrick Kingsley Photographs by Laetitia Vancon Patrick Kingsley, an international correspondent, and Laetitia Vancon, a photojournalist, are driving more than 3,700 miles to explore the reopening of the European continent after coronavirus lockdowns. Read all their dispatches. STUTTGART, Germany — Atop a hill beside a […]
Yellow and purple headscarves and patterned dresses made a jarring contrast with the camouflage uniforms worn by soldiers milling around a bullet-ridden checkpoint in the southern Yemeni city of Aden. It was 8am, and the sun was already hot. The family of six – four […]
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