When 4-year-old Jonah saw the baby cucumber poking up through the dirt, he shrieked, delighted. The viridescent dot had the group of children hollering and screaming. “They could not believe it! They didn’t think it was real,” recalls Sherri Mixon, executive director at TR Hoover Community Development Center, home of the Hoover Learning Garden. She […]
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#Therapy4BlackFolk: How Paintball Therapy is Curing PTSD
Over the past few years, cities across America have become playgrounds for paintball enthusiasts. This growing trend has become popularized via social media and word of mouth by former gang members and gun violence victims and participants. However, paintball or “paintball therapy” as some community participants have coined it, is not limited to those who […]
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Lil Snupe Documentary being filmed Tonight at DocuFest
The Dream Chaser Film which chronicles the life and career of hip-hop star, Lil Snupe, is being screened at DocuFest 2021 in Dallas. The rising hip hop star was fatally wounded days after his eighteenth birthday in 2013. This documentary tells his story of self-determination and his would-be rise in the hip-hop world. On June […]
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Rihanna’s ‘Savage X Fenty: Vol. 3’: Normani, Non-binary, and the 90s won
Let’s not glance over the different sizes and shapes of men and women on full display. A word to describe the casting choices and expression of the models and the fashion: unapologetic. Rihanna told Billboard, “I think the challenge every year is to make it better than the previous one and this year we went […]
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JP Morgan Chase Declares Dallas a Key Global Technology Center
Technology, especially in consumer facing businesses like banking, is changing quickly to meet customer demands and market trends. That’s why our firm has more than 3,000 technologists working locally, including software engineers and developers specializing in critical areas like cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, data analytics, digital, cloud and general engineering capabilities. Better still, […]
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Ocasio-Cortez Just Broke Down Female Biology and My Mind is Blown
Governor Greg Abbott recently signed an expansively prohibitive abortion bill. Touting the bill as providing at least six weeks for a person to seek abortion in Texas, Gov. Abbott believes that is more than enough time for a menstruating person to seek medical services. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez (NY) on CNN with Anderson Cooper, however, broke down […]
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Texas Doctor Who Says He Performed Abortion Sued in First Known Challenges Under New Law
(CNN) — A San Antonio doctor who wrote a Washington Post op-ed claiming that he had violated Texas’ six-week abortion ban now faces at least two lawsuits brought against him under the ban, both brought by plaintiffs who say they oppose the new law. One lawsuit was filed Monday by Oscar Stilley, a former tax attorney in […]
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The Power of BLK Love
BLK has been the app where relationships begin, but TikToker @KaniesOfficial has popularized the app for an entirely different reason. She shed light on a wave of non-monogamy that seems to be trending. DW caught up with Jonathan Kirkland, BLK’s head of marketing and brand to get his take on hook-up culture, online dating, and non-monogamy.
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Okay…Chlöe Slays with “Have Mercy”
“Okay, bitch”. That was my whole reaction as I laid in bed at 6:23am having watched the video for the third time. “Okay bitch” with a deep, personal and obligatory nod of approval. Chlöe Bailey, previously one half of the meteoric phenomenon “Chloe & Halle”, just dropped the music video for her single “Have Mercy”. Most […]
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Op-Ed: F*** YOU Greg Abbott
Op-Ed by Jai Makokha In 30 days, one man has signed the country’s MOST RESTRICTIVE ABORTION BAN as a literal middle finger to Roe v. Wade. He’s slapped the face of Black and marginalized communities and people with disabilities with his NEW VOTING RIGHTS LEGISLATION. Then doubled down on his abortion ban with restrictions to […]
