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2 weeks ago | 
planetdetroit.org | Randiah Camille Green
Overview: -Detroit-based skin care brands reflect shift to natural cosmetics. -Scott Boateng founded PREVA Body after a trip to his ancestral homeland of Ghana. -“I saw my brothers and sisters and how beautiful their skin was,” he says. During undergrad, Marissa Robinson had a bad eczema flare-up. It was the first time it had happened that badly since she was a child. She coated her skin with Eucerin and Vaseline every night, but soon, the Eucerin stopped working.
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3 weeks ago | 
metrotimes.com | Lee DeVito |Randiah Camille Green
The Detroit Tigers kick off their 25th baseball season at Comerica Park on Friday, hosting the Chicago White Sox. The first pitch starts at 1:10 p.m. Whether or not you have tickets to the big game, there are plenty of ways to show your team spirit downtown. Here are some of the bigger opening day parties in Detroit.
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3 weeks ago | 
metrotimes.com | Randiah Camille Green |Jared Rasic
You can always tell when a photo or painting of a woman was done by a male artist. Often there’s an overemphasis on her breasts and the other curves of her body, or she is miraculously free of wrinkles, and the imperfections that make her human. That isn’t the case at Playground Detroit’s Female Gaze exhibit, curated by gallery-owner Paulina Petkoski for Women’s History Month.
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3 weeks ago | 
outliermedia.org | Randiah Camille Green
This story was written by Randiah Camille Green and created in partnership with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. It is part of a year-long series focusing on the Hope Starts Here initiative in Detroit. Navigating parenthood can be scary, especially for first-time parents. Within the city of Detroit, there are several organizations providing free or low-cost services to support new parents — from prenatal to postpartum.
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1 month ago | 
outliermedia.org | Randiah Camille Green
This story was written by Randiah Camille Green and created in partnership with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. It is part of a year-long series focusing on the Hope Starts Here initiative in Detroit. While Detroit struggles with having enough early childhood education slots to meet community needs, experts in the field say a lack of funding and low wages for providers are the root of the problem. Two groups, Black Family Development, Inc.
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2 months ago | 
metrotimes.com | Randiah Camille Green
When there’s more than one Black woman in a work setting, it can sometimes feel like the Hunger Games. Our scarcity mindset is triggered and we feel like we must assert dominance to show who is better. There’s a reason for this, and it can all be traced back to slavery.
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2 months ago | 
midbrow.org | Randiah Camille Green
There’s something really annoying that happens when Black History Month rolls around. Magically, corporations and public institutions remember that Black people exist and run virtue signalling campaigns or heavy-handed displays of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. They missed the memo that Blackness is neither confined to the Civil Rights movement or the past, as our culture fuels the present and future.
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2 months ago | 
metrotimes.com | Randiah Camille Green |Jared Rasic
There’s something really annoying that happens when Black History Month rolls around. Magically, corporations and public institutions remember that Black people exist and run virtue signalling campaigns or heavy-handed displays of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. They missed the memo that Blackness is neither confined to the Civil Rights movement or the past, as our culture fuels the present and future.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
outliermedia.org | Randiah Camille Green
This story was written by Randiah Camille Green and created in partnership with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. It is part of a year-long series focusing on the Hope Starts Here initiative in Detroit. Gwendolyn Shivers has spent time taking care of other peoples’ children for nearly half a century, since the 62-year-old was just 13. But when she had her own children, as well as a job, the Brightmoor resident saw that there were limited child care options in her neighborhood.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
planetdetroit.org | Randiah Camille Green
Overview: - Detroit vs. Everybody has teamed up with We the People of Detroit to push for affordable water access. - Their campaign features a limited-edition t-shirt to highlight water affordability issues and drive policy reform. - This initiative builds on research and activism by We the People of Detroit, which has highlighted the health and social impacts of water shutoffs.
