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Source: Cindy Ord / Getty In today’s episode of White People Getting Upset When They’re Not The Default Target Audience, Kendrick Lamar’s performance during the Super Bowl LIX halftime show has caused a lot of controversy across social media, but while most Black people appear to be having a relatively mundane debate about how good the 13-minute set was or wasn’t — as well as how deep the messaging was or […]

Source: petrenkod / Getty In a world that constantly demands more of us—more productivity, more resilience, more energy—stress has become an unavoidable part of modern life. But while stress may be inevitable, we also have control over the way we navigate it. Many ancient healing traditions, including Ayurveda and herbalism, have long turned to the plant world for support in calming the nervous system and restoring balance. In my own […]

Source: DREW ANGERER / Getty Google has updated the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” for U.S. users following a formal update by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. The change follows President Trump’s directive on Jan. 20, his first day in office. The executive order instructed the Department of the Interior to take all steps necessary to make the change official. The department said […]

Source: Dennis Macdonald / Getty It often seems that no matter how much evidence there is that the justice system is systemically biased against Black people, the bar for proving racial discrimination in said system only ever gets higher. And it’s even more of an uphill battle to prove racial discrimination happened when the alleged victim of that discrimination actually is a criminal who committed a horrible crime. Well, on […]