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By Jasmine Browley ·Updated June 4, 2022
Tracy McGrady has been a superstar on and off the court for years, with successful business ventures in real estate, tech and other industries. But his latest is one he says is a true passion point for him.
According to a recent report by CNBC, McGrady is investing millions in his own enterprise, Ones Basketball League, or OBL, which’ll be making its New York
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By Jasmine Browley ·Updated June 8, 2022
Gabrielle Union breathed life into the ‘Mary Jane Paul’ character in the hit BET series Being Mary Jane. Now, more than three years after its series finale, Union is back at the network with a new deal.
Per a news release, the actress and producer has inked an overall deal with BET under her production company’s banner, ‘I’ll Have Another’ for BET Studios. The
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By Jasmine Browley ·Updated June 8, 2022
Michelle Obama is an impressive woman.
The ivy league educated leader earned her bachelor’s from Princeton University and a juris doctor degree from Harvard Law School.
The White House described her as a “lawyer, writer, and the wife of the 44th President, Barack Obama and the first African-American First Lady of the United States.”
What’s missing in that description is her deep influence in
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By Jasmine Browley ·Updated June 4, 2022
When Cristyl Kimbrough was applying for law school, she wasn’t sure if she would have a strong enough personal statement essay to get in. Her reason? She didn’t struggle enough growing up.
“I always thought you needed a story filled with tumult to convince those reading your law school application that you deserve a spot there—my family life was the opposite of that.”
Kimbrough,
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By Jasmine Browley ·Updated June 4, 2022
Did you know that a Black young man introduced vanilla to the world in the 1800s? I didn’t either.
Edmond Albius, a 12-year-old enslaved boy discovered the rostellum, the lid that prevents self fertilization in many orchid plants, including vanilla, and how to foster fertilization. He shared his technique with slaves at other plantations that led to developing the island of Réunion as one
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By Jasmine Browley ·Updated June 4, 2022
A 2013 study found that 40 percent of Black women don’t exercise because of their hair — and those that do, find themselves altering the rigor of their fitness routine to protect their ‘do. Simply put, societal expectations of “acceptable hair”is costly, time-consuming and sometimes even too painful to not preserve for long periods of time for many Black women. Thus, a new haistyle
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By Kimberly Wilson ·
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By Jasmine Browley ·Updated June 4, 2022
A private Facebook group called Black Women in Product Design was founded by web designer Lenora Porter and has since grown to hundreds ofmembers looking to connect, share with and learn from other Black women in the design sector. This is important because Black women make up less than 2% of the tech labor market.
This wasn’t lost on Jazmine Hoxley when she came to