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BLACK INFLUENCERS AND MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES BACK NEW BETTER HEALTH – EVERY MIND MATTERS CAMPAIGN CALLING ON THE COMMUNITY TO BE KIND TO THEIR MINDS Self Care Sunday routine encouraged as new research reveals 6 in 10 Black people regularly experience anxiety about the week ahead Top 3 causes identified include juggling family life, a

SELF CARE SUNDAYS ENCOURAGED TO TACKLE ANXIETY AS NEW RESEARCH REVEALS 6 IN 10 BLACK PEOPLE WORRY ABOUT WEEK AHEAD  BLACK INFLUENCERS AND MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES BACK NEW BETTER HEALTH – EVERY MIND MATTERS CAMPAIGN CALLING ON THE COMMUNITY TO BE KIND TO THEIR MINDS Self Care Sunday routine encouraged as new research reveals 6

The B-Uzuri app will be launched on 30th June 2022 by Bidii (link – https://bit.ly/3KOyW1c) to support black women.  Providing great fitness videos, nutrition information, and recipes for Afro Caribbean diets. Self-care is a proactive, unconditional way to improve your current state and harness unlimited beauty from within. Designed to help women with a variety of

Loading the player… Meagan Good is hoping to stem the rising rates of endometrial cancer in our communities. The actress and director is also an advocate, having recently added her star power to the two-year-old Spot Her campaign in an effort to raise awareness about endometrial cancer, the most common type of uterine cancer. Meagan Good attends

Loading the player… A woman’s place is in the kitchen? A quick scroll down Instagram and Tik Tok proves that’s not true. At any time of day, you can find Black men in the kitchen whipping up everything from jaw-dropping appetizers for the game to Michelin star-worthy meals for date night with the boo. As

Loading the player… This is the third installment in theGrio’s series “Mighty Love,” running through February. Read our first couple’s story here. What makes a winning couple? Some might say compatible interests. Others, a united faith. Still, others might assert that a couple’s compatibility lies in sharing similar drives and ambition. As athletes and fiancés,

Black History Month is widely considered a time to reflect on and honor the past, but a silent epidemic is threatening that history and its purveyors. Photo: AdobeStock According to the Alzheimer’s Association, older African Americans are twice as likely as their white counterparts to develop Alzheimer’s Disease. In fact, 21.3 percent of Black Americans

Loading the player… February 7 is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. First observed in 1999, the day focuses on increasing HIV education, testing, treatment and community involvement. To mark the day, many states held virtual symposiums, offered free testing and outlined steps taken to decrease the number of new cases among African-Americans. Photo: AdobeStock Ahead

Loading the player… Former The View co-host Star Jones returned to the ABC show on Friday for the first time in more than a decade. The 59-year-old ex-attorney, who helped The View rise to prominence as an original cast member during the 2000s, appeared on the show’s “Hot Topics” segment donning red to bring awareness

Brian Flores of the Miami Dolphins looks on during warm-up prior to the game against the Las Vegas Raiders at Allegiant Stadium on September 26, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images) The “good ol’ boys” strike again. In a whirlwind week of Super Bowl chatter, hirings and firings, and prominent quarterback

Loading the player… On Monday, veteran actress Vivica A. Fox, one-quarter of the Fox Soul show Cocktails with Queens, shared an update about Regina King following the recent death of King’s son, Ian Alexander, Jr. Fox visited her friend over the weekend and told her co-hosts, “She’s okay.” She went on to recall how she

Families will be given support to help to improve the diets of their children through a new campaign as new statistics reveal the number of parents giving unhealthy snacks to their children has increased during the pandemic. The NHS Food Scanner App has been updated as part of the Better Health campaign, which has been

Loading the player… As we navigate the loss of loved ones, another COVID-19 surge from the omicron variant that evades vaccinations and boosters and the uncertainty that comes with it, including the possibility of more lockdowns, combined with the racial trauma (the cumulative effect of racism on someone’s mental and physical health) that accompanies being

Loading the player… Religious services Sunday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, went viral after Pastor Michael Todd was recorded spitting into his hand and rubbing it on the face of a parishioner.  In the clip, Todd, the pastor at Transformation Church, cupped his hand and wiped large glops of saliva and phlegm on the face of a

Loading the player… COVID-19 infections are soaring again at U.S. nursing homes because of the omicron wave, and deaths are climbing too, leading to new restrictions on family visits and a renewed push to get more residents and staff members vaccinated and boosted. Nursing homes were the lethal epicenter of the pandemic early on, before

Loading the player… Get ready to learn more Greek letters. Scientists warn that omicron’s whirlwind advance practically ensures it won’t be the last version of the coronavirus to worry the world. Every infection provides a chance for the virus to mutate, and omicron has an edge over its predecessors: It spreads way faster despite emerging on a planet with

Loading the player… Shutting down schools and businesses to reduce the spread of COVID-19 isn’t a strategy New York City’s new Mayor Eric Adams wants to embrace going forward. “It’s time to live with COVID and build systems around COVID until it dissipates and leaves us,” Adams told anchors on MSNBC’s Morning Joe news show

Loading the player… The high-transmission rate of the omicron variant of COVID-19 could potentially mean that as it rips its way through the U.S. population leaving antibodies in its wake, herd immunity may actually be possible. In a recent CNBC report, Dr. David Ho, a world-renowned virologist, posited that “Sometimes a rapid-fire could burn through very quickly

Loading the player… A new combination strain of the delta and omicron variants of COVID-19 was recently discovered in the Middle East, Bloomberg News reported Saturday. A team of researchers at the University of Cyprus in the island country Cyprus has identified 25 cases of what they’re calling “deltacron,” the outlet said referencing Leondios Kostrikis

Loading the player… At a healthcare conference hosted by Goldman Sachs, the CEO of Moderna said front-line workers and people 50 and older may need a fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine later this year.  Booster shots given over the past few months will reportedly protect those vaccinated through this winter, but their effectiveness could