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Keke Palmer at “The Pickup” World Premiere held at Regal LA Live on July 27, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty Images) By Kimberly Wilson ·Updated January 6, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
Everyone’s favorite cousin (ahem, Keke Palmer), has officially lost the plot y’all.
And before you come for me, I say this with love.
Whether you came to adore her from True Jackson
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A young lady sits at her kitchen table counting her money to pay the household bills. (Photo by Andrew Aitchison/In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images) By Andrea Bossi ·Updated January 2, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
Minimum wages increased across 19 U.S. states and 47 cities and counties on January 1. A whopping number of more than 8.3 million workers are set to benefit from these hikes.
The largest
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WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 05: Draw assistant Shaquille O’Neal poses on the red carpet prior to the FIFA World Cup 2026 Official Draw at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on December 05, 2025 in Washington, DC.(Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) By Andrea Bossi ·Updated January 5, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
It’s never easy for an athlete to retire. They famously face identity crises, financial
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Businesswoman using computer at desk. Female professional is working at home office. She is looking at desktop PC. By Ronny Maye ·Updated December 29, 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
If 2025 taught us anything, it is a familiar truth Black women know well: seats are not promised, titles are temporary, and adaptability is not optional.
With the erasure of DEI efforts, mandates to return to in-person work, end-of-year hiring
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Laila Edwards has joined a special and necessary sorority. And no, it doesn’t involve pink and green, or crimson and cream (but oo-oop to all of my sorors anyway). At just 19, she’s now a part of the “first” club.
The University of Wisconsin junior, who wears the title of “first” proudly, is holding down her place in history as the first Black woman
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When eos announced they were finally launching body mists, I’ll admit I got a little too excited. I’ve been using their body lotions for years now (when I can actually get my hands on them, because it seems like they’re always sold out), and for good reason—they’re the #1 body lotion brand in America. I’m not one to
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CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA – MARCH 31:A woman buys a drink from the hipster coffee store “House of Machines” on March 31, 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa. Those born since the collapse of the “apartheid” system have experienced opportunities that previous generations of black South Africans could never have dreamed of. Twenty three years after the end of the institutionalised racial segregation system in South Africa, class divides are growing within the black South
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – FEBRUARY 11: A guest wears earrings, a blue sleeveless ruffled mini blue fluffy dress , outside Area, during New York Fashion Week, on February 11, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Edward Berthelot/Getty Images) By Andrea Bossi ·Updated January 1, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
Gen Z’s money woes feel like they’ve been a dominant narrative recently, and for valid reasons. Still,