Wellness That Matters: Black Health News & Community Care The KFF Health News Minute is available every Thursday via direct download or the RSS feed. July 16 Sam Whitehead reads the week’s news: Some health plans are pocketing their enrollees’ drug discounts, while many Affordable Care Act insurers want to raise rates by double digits next year. July 9 Rachel Spears reads the week’s news: When babies receiving infant formula allegedly get sick or die, what happens next is largely up to the companies that make it. Plus, abortions continue to rise four years after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. July 2 Jackie Fortiér [FOR-tee-ay] reads the…
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From Campus to Classroom: Stories That Shape Education Ninety-seven rising high school seniors from across the country concluded a week of leadership development, college readiness, and career exploration as the 2026 TMCF SOAR (Seeking, Observing, and Achieving Results) HBCU Scholars Program came to a close Friday, July 10, at Grambling State University. Hosted in partnership with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), the weeklong residential experience introduced scholars to college life while helping them strengthen leadership skills, explore academic and career opportunities, and build meaningful relationships with peers, mentors, faculty, alumni, and industry professionals. Throughout the week, scholars participated in…
Stay Informed: Latest News from Across Georgia Chef Pahroosha Israel, a longstanding chef at Soul Vegetarian, poses for a picture outside the West End location. After 47 years, Atlanta’s oldest Black-owned vegan restaurant has closed its doors. Photo by Tabius McCoy/The Atlanta Voice Just days before the closure of Atlanta’s oldest Black-owned vegan restaurant on July 12, The Atlanta Voice visited Soul Vegetarian as it prepared to close a chapter in its rich history. A woman who had been coming to the restaurant since she was a child fellowshipped over a meal with her teenage son, reflecting two generations that…
Black Travelers: Explore Culture, Adventure & Connection Is Jamaica safe to visit in 2026? The short answer is yes. However, where you go on the island and how you prepare beforehand matter more than they used to. Hurricane Melissa made landfall near Black River on October 28, 2025, as a Category 5 storm. It’s the strongest hurricane ever recorded to strike Jamaica, surpassing Hurricane Gilbert in 1988. As Travel Noire previously reported, an estimated 25,000 tourists were on the island when the storm hit, and evacuating proved difficult for both residents and visitors. Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston came…
Global Black Voices: News from around the World Kes the Band has officially concluded its highly acclaimed Roots, Rock, Soca Tour, marking another groundbreaking moment in the band’s remarkable journey. The international tour captivated audiences across the United Kingdom, Europe and North America – making history as the first Soca act to sell-out stadium shows in the United States and to sell out the RBC Amphitheater in Toronto, Canada with 16,000 fans. The tour featured sold-out shows in major music cities such as London, Vancouver, Los Angeles, New York, and its final stop in Toronto – with thousands of fans gathering night after night to experience the…
Scientific research & Exploration: Check Out the Globe Through Research and Innovation Google general advise discusses AI-powered phishing increase Halimah Delaine Prado, Google General Guidance, exposes the surge of AI-powered phishing scams originating from China’s ‘outsider business.’ She clarifies just how these criminals use artificial intelligence to produce extremely convincing fake sites, impersonating trusted brand names like T-Mobile to rip off thousands of countless Americans, causing millions in losses. Prado highlights Google’s approach to fight these evolving dangers. Offering your home can be amazing. It can additionally really feel stressful, specifically as you relocate right into your retired life years.…
Health Watch: Wellness, Research & Healthy Living Tips The Food and Drug Administration approved a daily pill on Thursday that can lower cholesterol levels far below what can be achieved with statins, the cheap cholesterol-reducing pills.The drug, enlicitide, whose brand name is Lipfendra, is made by the pharmaceutical company Merck. Clinical trials have shown that it can bring levels of LDL — the dangerous type of cholesterol — down to 50 or 60 or even lower. Adults not taking cholesterol-lowering drugs usually have levels above 100. It works by inhibiting a protein known as PCSK9.New cholesterol guidelines issued by the…
Business Insights: Global Markets, Strategy & Economic Trends It was often likened to a global town square.While that analogy may have been overplayed, Twitter evolved into something roughly fitting that description after its public debut two decades ago, on July 15, 2006.At the height of its influence, the platform — renamed X in 2023 — gave the powerful and the unsung alike a place to preen and pontificate, 140 characters (later 280 characters) at a time.Its memes and viral videos distracted and entertained, but Twitter also became the preferred way for governors and heads of state — and one American…
Game On: Sports News, Highlights & Commentary Back in 2019, Victoria claimed that “not smiling publicly” was a type of “armour” that she was prone to hiding behind, which she elaborated on even more in her self-titled Netflix documentary last year.“I’ve looked miserable for all these years because when we stand on the red carpet, [David] has always gone on the left,” she explained to viewers.She added: “Now I didn’t realise that when I smile – which I do! – I smile from the left, because if I smile from the right, I look unwell. So, consequently I’m smiling on…