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The Secret Ingredient to Maintaining Clean Eating

Spring often brings inspiration to live a healthier lifestyle, but sometimes, sticking to clean eating is just hard. Most of us don’t have the bandwidth...
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Rockin’ Dutty, Eating Clean

Writer Sonia Morgan | Photography Ryan Born It’s not every day that you get to grill Grammy award-winning dancehall artist Sean Paul about his personal life. But on...
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Food for Snacks or Beauty Hacks

Writer Staff Writer  | Photography Supplied Long before YouTube DIY and how-to videos became a thing, women across the Caribbean were using natural ingredients from their gardens and...

Manifest Your Best Year Yet: A Guide to Setting Intentions and Goals

As the year comes to a close, it's the ideal time to reflect on the past and set your sights on the future. Setting intentions...
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Why Some Caribbean Americans Have Frightening Vaccine Hesitancy

After a year of dealing with a deadly pandemic which has disproportionately affected Black people, you would think we’d embrace something that promises to...
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5 Simple Rules to Good Hydration

Take a moment to think about when you had your last sip of water. If you find yourself randomly feeling tired,...

Style tips from Jamaica’s modern rude boys

Slick suits, cropped pants, and killer shoes -- the rude boy style lives on among the most stylish men around the world. But Jamaican sartorialists are holding...

What Black America Needs to Know About COVID-19 and Vaccines

Government, community, and faith-based leaders join forces to champion the fight against COVID-19 The new year has brought with it more daunting...
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That Healing Kush: The Benefits and Risks of Medical Marijuana

Perceptions of marijuana, a cultural icon of the Jamaican Rastafari faith, are changing. As therapeutic applications become more widely accepted, the medical potential of what...
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20 Surprising Styles That Will Make You Wish You Had Dreadlocks

In the 1970s with the popularization of Rastafari, people who wore dreadlocks were looked down upon as outcasts and rebels. Today, "locs" have become mainstream, and thanks...

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