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Former President Donald Trump used his turn before the nation’s largest professional association of Black journalists to question the racial identity of his rival for the White House this fall, telling a shocked National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago that Vice President Kamala Harris “happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black. Read More...
Just a few months ago, Jazmine Boykins was posting her artwork online for free. The 20-year-old digital artist’s dreamy animations of Black life were drawing plenty of likes, comments and shares, but not much income, aside from money she made selling swag with her designs between classes at North Carolina A&T State University.
But Boykins has recently been selling the same pieces for thousands of dollars each, thanks to an emerging technology upending the rules of digital ownership: NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. Read More...
Trends come and go faster than the videos on your TikTok FYP, but there's something refreshingly timeless about promise rings—those sparkling tokens of affection that have quietly symbolized love and commitment for centuries. Promise rings whisper “I’m in, baby,” without diving headfirst into marriage. It’s handy when you’re almost ready to take the plunge and have a future proposal in mind. While jewelry fads can be fun, a promise ring is a shiny reminder that true love never goes out of style. Read More...
