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Being trim and slim is a desired wish that many people would like to be fulfilled. The term “obese” resonates with millions of people who struggle with excess weight and have lost the battle with diet and exercise. African-American women have the highest rates of being overweight or obese. According to a recent study by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, four out of five African-American women are overweight or obese compared to other groups in the United States.
Fantasia Barrino and her mother, Diane Barrino-Barber, work it out on this song on the Celebration of Gospel, which aired at the top of the year.
Liya Kebede is a woman after my own heart. When the top model found out weavers in her native country of Ethiopia were losing their jobs becauseof a decline in local demand for their goods, she decided to do something about it.
Minx have taken the beauty world by storm, but at $30-35 per manicure, actually wearing them can be elusive for many. Never fear China Glaze has a viable option.
The 40th anniversary of Earth Day is today and the climate and clean-energy jobs movement is the "lunch-counter moment" for our generation, a reference to the students in Greensboro, North Carolina who sat down at a segregated lunch counter 50 years ago. Their actions galvanized the civil rights movement, which for the couple years prior, had been somewhat stagnant.
Spring season brings the boys to the yard — harder. So adding any (or all) of Mar y Sol’s clutches to your handbag rotation is a must. We absolutely die for the updated multicolored Opal clutch (top left), now accentuated with interwoven gold thread.
VIA: www.elev8.com Diabetes does not discriminate. It doesn’t care whether you’re famous or not, if your body frame is small, medium or large, or whether you’re female or male. Diabetes affects millions of individuals all over the world. The statistics for African-Americans developing diabetes are alarming. African-Americans are 1.8 times more likely to develop diabetes […]
Civil Rights icon Dorothy Height died today at the age of 98, according to media reports. President Barack Obama called Height “the godmother of the civil rights movement” and a hero to many Americans."
Just call her Shaunie O. Amidst all the recent drama surrounding her divorce from NBA giant Shaquille O’Neal and above all the haters who venture to say she’s a “gold digger,” first lady of the Basketball Wives, Shaunie is newly single, independent and making moves to build an empire all her own, with or without the NBA. Her current projects on deck scale from producing more “Sports Wives” series to developing her own line of high-fashion shoes. This former arm candy is on a roll and doing big things in more ways than one. And it’s not all work and no play for Shaunie O. The queen bee also dishes the details on her latest love affair with sexy, 23 year old Marion Yates. Let the games begin…
For several weeks, officials at the Quail Hollow Championship had a contingency plan in place should Tiger Woods decide to play the Charlotte event. Those plans went into action Thursday when Woods committed to play the April 26-May 2 event at the Quail Hollow Club.
Lauryn Hill was on her way to one of the biggest careers in the music industry. Although she ended her career before it could really take off, I have always loved this rendition of “His Eye Is On The Sparrow.” Every time I hear it I get chills. http://cdn.elev8.com/external/js/gallery/21251
What is distracting you? So often the cares of life- work, family, activities, etc. keep us so busy that at the end of the day, we don’t remember anything that we did.