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Rich white guys are making money through creating vaccine d...tion campaigns. They’re targeting our community the hardest.
There's a mad dash to influence Black people's thinking on COVID-19 and the vaccine. And it's not Black people behind it. The post Rich white guys are making money through creating vaccine disi...
It is time to start firing racists. Start with Dr. Susan Moore’s doctor.
If medicine is solely going to be about the money, then it's time people start losing their money when they commit injustices against Black people. The post It is time to start firing racists. ...
Detoxes are dumb, leave Lizzo alone, and other thoughtful things
"Your body is perfectly yours, even if it ain’t perfect to anybody else. If you only knew the complexities your body possesses you would be so proud of it." The post Detoxes are dumb, leave L...
Hell naw, Black people don’t trust the vaccine. But here’s how you fix that.
Medical science has an abysmal track record with Black America. There simply isn't any other way to put it. There's the time when scientists deliberately watched Black men with syphilis suffer an...
Does a weight loss blog belong in a list of body positive spaces? Of course not, but…
A couple of weeks ago, a popular Instagram account referenced me as a “body positive” woman of color. I very politely thanked them for the inclusion, and snuck back into The post Does a wei...
Gen X, it’s time to have a serious conversation about your health.
Research is showing that diseases largely associated with approaching retirement age are being found well before we would normally expect. Conditions that are normally found in 50 and 60 year old...
It’s time to talk about black male incels.
Perhaps we need to consider that "incel" is, when looked at through a lens that doesn't merely fixate on white men, a term that includes a lot of the behavior that we see displayed in our communi...
Your state’s approach to ‘re-opening’ tells you whether they believe Black Lives Matter.
All across the country, we’re watching communities go through the same thing we went through here in New York, people testing positive for coronavirus disease (or COVID-19), and then the The ...
No, food is not ‘just food’ in the Black community, and that’s okay.
Recipes are more than roots in a rich family tree still bearing fruit, they're connection to the people who loved us. That's more than food—that's Soul Food. The post No, food is not ‘ju...
The Empathy Gap: Coronavirus is hitting Black communities harder than anyone else. Of course it is.
It's too easy to blame Black people's rates of heart disease and diabetes for the high rate of COVID-19 related mortality. It's so, so much deeper than that. The post The Empathy Gap: Coronavir...
I didn’t take the coronavirus seriously… until I caught it.
My experience with the COVID-19 disease, and why we need to take it as seriously as possible. The post I didn’t take the coronavirus seriously… until I caught it. first appeared on A Black...
The Truth About Why There Aren’t Any Grocery Stores in the ‘Hood
People will tell you any old self-hating nonsense about why there aren't any good grocery stores in the hood. It's time to learn the truth. The post The Truth About Why There Aren’t Any Groce...
#BlackCulinaryHistory: Jessica B. Harris, A National Treasure
Celebrating the decades of work of Jessica B. Harris, a phenomenal author who chronicles the history of Black food culture. The post #BlackCulinaryHistory: Jessica B. Harris, A National Treasur...
This is What White Supremacy in Medical Research Looks Like
There’s been this one thing that has been nagging at me ever since I first saw it, about a year ago: But a study published Tuesday in The Journal of The post This is What White Supremacy in M...
Study: Hair care might be barrier to health for black women. Should doctors be talking to us about it?
We can barely get doctors to hear us when we talk about the pain from bones dangling from sockets, or other real and sincere health problems. Doctors are supposed to care about something like our...
I told y’all almost a decade ago to stop listening to Jillian Michaels. Y’all don’t listen.
Over the years, I’ve become conflicted in discussing celebrities. I didn’t want to feel like I was elevating—actively or passively—one kind of body type over another; and I didn’t want ...
I Finally Answer the Question, “What Do You Think About Weight Loss Surgery?”
And there are people who will ask, "Well, can't I just do that on my own, by myself, without surgery?" Of course you can. But if your doctor is scared for your health, and believes you are at sev...
Marriage, Weight Gain, and The Interchangeable, Replaceable Woman
For weeks, I watched people across social media argue about whether a man was justified in cheating on his wife because she gained weight. Don’t worry—I’m not interested in talking The po...
Happy 10th Anniversary, A Black Girl’s Guide to Weight Loss!
On July 19th, 2009, A Black Girl's Guide to Weight Loss was born. Today, in 2019, it turns ten years old. Almost as old as my child! The post Happy 10th Anniversary, A Black Girl’s Guide to W...
BGG2WL Turns 10: My Top Ten Favorite Posts
Inside, are ten of my favorite examples of the intense and serious conversations that make A Black Girl's Guide to Weight Loss so wonderful. The post BGG2WL Turns 10: My Top Ten Favorite Posts ...