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Rihanna proudly displays 4/20 appreciation. (Photo by Target Presse Agentur Gmbh/Getty Images) By Bridgette Bartlett Royall ·Updated April 20, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
The United States legal cannabis industry is projected to reach approximately $30.5 billion in revenue in 2026, according to a March 2026 report by Whitney Economics. According to Flowhub,legal cannabis is expected to add approximately $149 billion to the U.S. economy, as every $10 spent at
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By Bridgette Bartlett Royall ·Updated April 18, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
These days, it is easy to feel like the world is on fire: all of our bills are too high, we’re at war with Iran, the government is…Well, you know how stressful politics is right now. Our news cycle usually feels like one sad or depressing story after another. But, there is still an abundance of Black joy and Black excellence in our midst. So we’ve gathered
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By Bridgette Bartlett Royall ·Updated April 17, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
Who doesn’t enjoy a good plot twist? Not the cheesy, out-of-left-field type but the unforgettable organic ones that resonate with our own real life, “How did I get here?” moments. Author Kennedy Ryan writes compelling stories that encompass the latter and now we’re get a juicy television adaption of one of her bestselling books, Before I Let
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When rich women offer parenting advice, it usually evokes some eye rolling from me. Because let’s be honest, sis: Although we have the same 24 hours in a day, most working and even middle-class mothers do not have access to a bevy of assistants, live-in nannies or au pairs, chefs, drivers and the like. So, when Emma Grede, the 43-year-old blunt British businesswoman
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By Bridgette Bartlett Royall ·Updated April 13, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
One giant leap for was made for the entire human race last week. And a Black man lead the team who did it.
On April 1, 2026, Victor Glover, Jr. launched into space, becoming one of four people to travel farther from Earth than any human being in history as part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s
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By Bridgette Bartlett Royall ·Updated April 11, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
These days, it is easy to feel like the world is on fire: all of our bills are too high, we’re at war with Iran, the government is…Well, you know how stressful politics is right now. Our news cycle usually feels like one sad or depressing story after another. But, there is still an abundance of Black joy and Black excellence in our midst. So we’ve gathered
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Members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. strike a pose in Atlanta in 2023. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images) By Bridgette Bartlett Royall ·Updated April 10, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
Nobody saw this one coming.
When content from the 73rd Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. South Atlantic Regional Conference (SARC) in Orlando, FL last week began to surface on the world wide web, it spread rapidly. The conference
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By Bridgette Bartlett Royall ·Updated April 8, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
Malcom X proclaimed that the most disrespected person in America is a Black woman. More than 60 years after he made this assertion, it still resonates, even during a 2026 college basketball game.
When the University of South Carolina Gamecocks, coached by Dawn Staley, defeated the University of Connecticut Huskies, coached by Geno Auriemma, 62-48, on April 3