By Danielle Braff Oct. 7, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET Black bridal designers have been at the forefront of innovation in the bridal fashion industry for years, yet many of them have failed to receive the recognition that they deserve. Most famously, when Ann Lowe, a Black woman who created gowns for debutantes and society brides, designed Jacqueline Bouvier’s…
Read More Black Bridal Designersby John Waggoner, AARP, October 5, 2020 Eleven states have only an estate tax: Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. Washington, D.C. does, as well. Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island have only an inheritance tax. Read HERE
Read More 17 States With Estate or Inheritance TaxesJohnny Nash, a singer whose “I Can See Clearly Now” reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts in 1972, helping to bring reggae music to a mainstream audience in the United States and over the decades becoming an anthem of optimism and renewal, died on Tuesday at his home in Houston. He was 80. Read…
Read More RIP Johnny NashTake some flour and sift it with a little baking powder and a dash of salt and half as much sugar as flour. For 6 pancakes I used about 1/2 heaping cup flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, and about 1/3 cup sugar. Add 1 or 2 eggs, a glug of oil (pour the oil and…
Read More My banana pancakesThis may be as close as we get to the new James Bond movie for a while. “No Time to Die – the 25th installment of the Bond series – had been delayed for the second time amid uncertainty regarding the coronavirus pandemic,” according to NME. Regal Theaters parent company is closing all theaters, putting some 40,000+ employees out of work, because…
Read More No Time to Die delayed again – Movie Houses CloseBut let’s be clear: Going high does not mean putting on a smile and saying nice things when confronted by viciousness and cruelty. Going high means taking the harder path. It means scraping and clawing our way to that mountain top. Going high means standing fierce against hatred while remembering that we are one nation…
Read More Michelle Obama SaysPlayers have united to depose a sitting senator in Georgia, who has clashed with the Black Lives Matter movement and is an owner of the Atlanta Dream and one of the wealthiest members of Congress. W.N.B.A. players, led by members of the Dream, began wearing T-shirts declaring “Vote Warnock,” a reference to the Democratic preacher running against…
Read More The One Name the W.N.B.A. Won’t SayBy Donna M. Owens Oct. 5, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. EDT America’s presidential campaigns have a new coveted voter: Black men. Pew found that Black men (77 percent) are less likely than Black women (87 percent) to identify as Democrats. And according to Gallup, Trump’s approval rating is 8 points higher (19 percent vs. 11 percent) among…
Read More Trump and Biden are both courting the votes of Black men. Will it make a difference?Omari McQueen’s Best Bites Cook Book (due Jan 2021) Living Lively: 80 Plant-Based Recipes to Activate Your Power and Feed Your Potential, Haile Thomas In Bibi’s Kitchen: The Recipes and Stories of Grandmothers from the Eight African Countries that Touch the Indian Ocean, Hawa Hassan (due Oct 13) Eziban Vol. 1: Recipes Across The Black Diaspora, download…
Read More My Best Cookbooks of 2020 (so far)Amol S. Navathe and Harald Schmidt are assistant professors of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania. It’s time to fix payment models that don’t address Covid-19’s disproportionate impact on racial and ethnic minorities and don’t align with broader efforts to make health care fair. Research shows that doctors are more likely…
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