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Aretha Franklin’s children are in court battling it out over who is the true executor of her last will and testament. The legendary R&B singer, who had four sons, died in August 2018. The case is currently being argued in an Oakland County probate court. Ted White II, Franklin’s third son, says t
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On September 23, 2023, the 11th annual Global Citizens concert will make its return to New York City. The festival will be headlined by Ms. Lauryn Hill and Megan Thee Stallion and will be held on the Great Lawn at Central Park. The annual music event features dynamic performances from the most re
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It's time for Flashback Friday, and we're revisiting the cast of the hit series Girlfriends, series creator Mara Brock Akil's 'hashtag goals' for Black female friendship. Due to the 2008 writers' strike, we never got the ending that we deserved, and we were cheated out of seeing Toni and Joan reu
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Visit "Clotilda: The Exhibition" A Testament to African Resilience, Honoring The Ship's Survivors and Their Descendants
“Clotilda: The Exhibition” at the Africatown Heritage House officially opened on July 8, 2023, in Mobile, Alabama. The 2,500 square feet of rich, multi-sensory space includes pieces of the Clotilda, the last-known ship to illegally bring African people into the United States. It is coupledwith co
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Operating a Brooklyn-based practice rooted in an anti-bias patient-centered lens of cultural humility, Maya Feller MS,RD,CDN has been on a separate yet related quest to equip marginalized communities with resources to bridge the gaps of food inequality. Food and nutrition inequities have historic
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