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The Queen of Christmas joined Leslie D. Rose (Blavity) to discuss her McDonald's Partnership, "All I Want For Christmas Is You," and ways to maintain the holiday spirit after a rough couple of years.

Former No Limit rapper Mac Phipps joined Blavity News' Facebook Live to discuss new music, the ills of incarceration and reentering society after a 21-year prison sentence.

Conversations about policing have taken the mainstream stage throughout history, from its not-so-humble beginnings in slave patrols, to the sociological concerns that the role feeds the school-to-prison pipeline, to various inequities in staffing and community presence.

Country songstress Mickey Guyton has been making hits, waves and everything in between.

Black women experience fibroids at a slightly higher rate than women of other races, with eight of every ten Black women being diagnosed with these generally-noncancerous uterine growths. More often than not, when experiencing severe symptoms of the gynecological issue, the aforementioned group of women faces healthcare disparities and poor recommendations for treatment options, even botched surgical procedures that leave them with unsightly and unnecessary scars.

Singer Syleena Johnson always had goals outside of her music career, including one surprising fitness aspiration that she kept private until recently. The Grammy-nominated artist was silently grinding toward becoming a fitness competitor, but things didn't immediately pan out how she planned.

Live music took an unexpected hiatus at the top of the Coronavirus pandemic keeping artists from intimately connecting with fans and snatching away a favorite pastime of music lovers. In the middle of 2021, during somewhat of a downturn in COVID-19 concerns, live music events began making their way back to stages across the country. Now, emboldened by tighter restrictions, vaccine policies and an incredible desire to once again commune in this manner...

"There are so many issues that can look great from the outside, but just aren't the case when you really get into it," Felix told Blavity.
Track and field superstar Allyson Felix, who recently became the most decorated athlete in the sport, has partnered with health benefits company Anthem to spread awareness about its new health study, What's Driving Our Health, that examines how Americans think about health and the social drivers affecting certain communities.

Rap and hip hop music became major tools for advertising, marketing, and branding in the mid-1980s. It is likely the perception of cool that works well for advertisers, coupled with the ever-growing popularity of the genre among younger audiences. Over the years rap has been used as a means of drawing in consumers not familiar with it but fascinated with its elements, as well as rap fans seeking to emulate popular artists. Since the mid-1980s, rap has been used to sell everything from clothing to cars, cell phone providers, computers, beverages, food, lint rollers, and dolls.

Mariah Carey is celebrating yet another Christmas at the top and adding a few more holiday notches to her Santa belt. This year, among major accolades for her mega holiday song and starring in a second Apple TV+ special, the undisputed Queen of Christmas has partnered with McDonald's to launch The Mariah Menu on Dec. 13.

Multi-hyphenate entertainer Phonte Coleman has had quite a celebrated career over the past two decades. The North Carolina-based rapper/singer/producer/podcast host has been a member of two successful music groups — Little Brother and The Foreign Exchange. He's also a co-host of the Questlove Supreme podcast and an indie record label co-owner, and he's even been featured as a rapping banana on Sesame Street.

Picture it, it’s the end of the year and you’re scrambling to pick yourself apart to identify every flaw and character trait that you intend to leave behind. You resolve to eat healthier, work out more, live your best life and insert whatever promise you might soon falter in the new year.

Vaccine hesitation has been a widespread issue throughout the United States since COVID-19 vaccines were first announced near the end of 2020. Initially, the resistance leaned more on the political end of things with former President Donald Trump taking questionable stances on the virus and vaccine. However, as Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson began producing the inoculation, fear of the unknown shook the Black community at large, who primarily cited a lack of trust in the American heal...

I woke up surrounded by the darkness of an early morning sky on a brisk November autumn morning in Delaware. I had driven the short ride from Prince George’s County, Maryland, to my neighboring state to participate in the annual Hike Across Delaware, presented by the Wilmington Trail Club.

As much as you may think you know about Tarana Burke, her newly released memoir, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement, reveals so much more about the woman who crafted the two words that seek to forever change the way we discuss sexual violence.