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NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – JULY 06: (L-R) First Lady of Maryland Dawn Moore and Governor of Maryland Wes Moore attend the 2025 ESSENCE Festival Of Culture presented by Coca-Cola – Day 3 at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 06, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana.(Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for ESSENCE) By Kimberly Wilson ·Updated May 4, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
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Moving to a new city is hard enough. But moving to a new city alone and spending the first six months trying to figure out the best happy hour, the best natural hair salon, or the place with the best burger, is a particular kind of haze.
When Jason Kelley started The Wave in Washington, D.C. in 2016, he
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Tyriq Withers grew up in Florida.
Jacksonville, specifically, which is technically the same state as Miami… the way New York is technically close to Maryland. It’s five hours away, give or take. But when Audi flew him in for the Grand Prix and he stepped off the plane, the humidity hit like home.
“I got off the plane, felt the
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 22: Taye Diggs attends the American Ballet Theatre 2025 Fall Gala at David Geffen Hall on October 22, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images) By Kimberly Wilson ·Updated May 2, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
Welcome to Black Wealth Watch, where we round up the biggest stories in Black business and economic news each week — the wins,
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By Kimberly Wilson ·Updated May 1, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
John Wall spent nine seasons making Washington, D.C. fall in love with him, and apparently the feeling was mutual.
The five-time NBA All-Star has been named President of Basketball Operations at The Mecca, aka Howard University, returning to the city where he became a star. In his new role he’ll be helping to build the future of basketball talent
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Chocolate and I have a complicated history… but only in fragrance.
In real life however, I’ve never turned down chocolate in absolutely any form. Not a bar, cake, cream, fountain, nada. But in perfume? I’ve been let down enough times to know better than to get my hopes up. Most chocolate fragrances fall into one of two lanes: they
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Sad mid adult woman in the kitchen at home By Jackie B. Grice ·Updated April 29, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
At the height of my success, I was totally depleted.
My days started with the phone ringing before the sun came up. Either a driver had called out, or a bus was running behind schedule. By mid-morning, I was already managing problems that could not wait. That was
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Golf has always been clear about who it was built for.
The country clubs, the dress codes, the long-running sense that certain people were always welcome while others were merely being accommodated: all of it kept Black players at arm’s length from a sport many of them genuinely love. The Social Golf Association, a Black-owned, Black-led nonprofit out of
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For nearly 160 years, Saint Augustine’s University sat on 105 acres in downtown Raleigh as a cornerstone of Black higher education in the South. This week, the school filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, dropped a years-long legal fight to hold onto its accreditation, and announced yet another leadership change.
For the students still enrolled, it means one thing above