Help Cure Sickle Cell Disease Joining Be The Match may be the most important thing you do this year Sickle cell disease is a debilitating illness causing chronic and extreme pain, fatigue, swelling, infection, and more for the approximately 100,000 Americans living with it today. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, sickle cell disease disproportionally affects the…
God Told Me I Wouldn’t Die From Breast Cancer And Then It Came Back As told to Veronica Wells-Puoane of NoSugarNoCreamMag.com In 2009, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. As far as battling life-threatening illnesses go, my mother got through her first round of breast cancer, relatively easily. But late last year, after telling her that they just saw…
American Red Cross: Sickle Cell Strong Recently, the American Red Cross presented the “Sickle Cell Strong” Instagram LIVE event, hosted by Rashan Ali and featuring sickle cell advocates singer Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, NFL coach Bobby Engram and his wife, Deanna, as well as Red Cross medical director Dr. Yvette Miller to help raise awareness of sickle cell disease and the…
Photo Source: Natural Silver Sista by Mary Wolff We all want beautiful, healthy hair. If there were a pill that promised to give you healthy, strong hair, pretty nails, and promoted hair growth, would you take it? Of course, you would! This is the premise of biotin supplements. They claim to offer all of these benefits and many curlies are…
By Mwabi Kaira A week before Thanksgiving in 2014, we celebrated my brother and sister’s joint birthdays with a party. Somewhere between the dancing, the drinks and cutting the cake, my big sister casually mentioned that she hadn’t been feeling well and google had told her that she probably had colon cancer. I rolled my eyes and thought…
By Alma Hill I remember the day I realized the grocery stores in communities of color sold a completely different kind of food than the grocery stores in “better” neighborhoods. Continue Reading I used to live in a small suburb of Orlando called Winter Park. The population was pretty diverse, both in skin color, and income levels, mostly because of…
Image: @darknslay Loving your natural hair is a learning experience. Your entire life you are exposed to images of hair that shape and transform your perspective of the person you see when you look in the mirror. That person – you should be happy with her. You should love her fully, from her crown to her heels. But sometimes it is…
Aren’t you tired of crashing before noon and needing a coffee refill multiple times throughout the day? Believe it or not, the more coffee you consume on a daily basis, the more dependent your body becomes on that caffeine-fix. Continue Reading Trust me. I’ve been through caffeine withdrawal and it is not pretty. Headaches. On top of headaches. Anger. Fatigue….
How many times have you tried a new diet that didn’t work for you? How did you come across this diet? And if you thought it’d work, WHY? Continue Reading Too often do we find ourselves adopting lifestyles that “look” like they will do just as much good for us as the girl we saw in the video or on…
Photo Credit: @spiritedpursuit by Mary Wolff There are a lot of sneaky things that can mess up your hair. When it comes to alcohol, those few drinks with the girls may be costing your curls. Whether you enjoy margaritas or martinis, alcohol can be a concern for naturalists looking to keep their hair healthy and happy. So, does drinking alcohol hurt…
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