Category: Family
Parenting Your Parents When They Don’t Want Help
How adult children communicate with parents can go a long way toward easing tensions. Instead of telling your parent what to do, ask how they’d prefer to solve problems. Elicit their priorities and recognize their values when making suggestions.
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Effort to Control Opioids in an ER Leaves Some Sickle Cell Patients in Pain
By Sam Whitehead, WABE India Hardy has lived with pain since she was a toddler — ranging from dull...
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When Is It Time to Take an Elder’s Cell Phone?
Whether it’s the keys or the keyboard, family members must be vigilant about safety — and...
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On ‘Becoming’ and Michelle Obama’s Brilliant, Beautiful Approach to Life
Becoming, Michelle Obama’s long-awaited, and already much-loved memoir is a rich, engaging,...
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Queen Latifah and Her Mom Battled Heart Disease, Side by Side
This 2014 tribute to her mother, Rita Owens, was just one of many ways in which Queen Latifah...
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Monique Greenwood “Checks Inn” to OWN With Akwaaba Empire
Akwaaba Bed & Breakfast Inns is the most successful B&B business on the East Coast, and...
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‘A Beautiful Thing’ — Serena Makes History With Venus
While many of you were sleeping, Serena Williams made history again by winning her 23rd grand slam at the Australian Open in Melbourne. It was yet another sister act against Venus Williams, and they both came to play.
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Coretta Scott King Explores Her Legacy in New Memoir
From the pages of a new biography, Coretta Scott King emerges from the shadows, the margins of...
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Give to Protect Your Right to Good Health
#GivingTuesday is almost here. We are fiercely committed to keeping you informed about threats to...
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Great News about Living Single
No group has taken more flack—or been more closely analyzed—when it comes to marital status than...
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Do You Feel Less Safe in America Today?
A cop body-slammed 15-year-old Dajerria Becton to the ground at a graduation pool party. She lived...
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Helping Yourself and Your Family Cope With Senseless Violence
For millions of black women, men and parents, the shockwaves from the last few months of police...
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Fierce Voices
Sparing the Rod and
Saving Our Children
Stacey Patton provides a powerful, heart-breaking look at the link with white supremacy and why it's time to stop hitting our children, for their sake and the future of black families. Click here to read.
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