I’ll never forget the time my mother came home to find an elder family friend, who was just visiting, asking me, maybe four or five at the time, to scrub […] The post How Generational Trauma Has Shaped Our Relationship With Rest appeared first on Essence.

The arguments hinged on a procedural question about the powers of lower courts that conservatives appeared sympathetic to, but that could create a patchwork of citizenship across the country.

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What happens when two Black entrepreneurs with a vision see opportunity where others haven’t? For LaRian Finney and Derrick Chase, the founders of AfroPreak, it meant recognizing that the iconic […] The post How AfroPreak Is Reclaiming The Preakness Stakes — And Putting Black Culture Front And Center appeared first on Essence.