3/5/2021, 6 a.m. Boys Hope Girls Hope of Baltimore (BHGH) is excited to announce the 1st Annual Walk to Hope being held virtually from April 1 through April 30, 2021. To register for the walk or for more information, visit the official Boys Hope Girls Hope Walk to Hope website: www.boyshopegirlshope.org/walktohope/. Courtesy Photo
Baltimoreâ Missing travel? Boys Hope Girls Hope of Baltimore (BHGH) is excited to announce the 1st Annual Walk to Hope being held virtually from April 1 through April 30, 2021. The step challenge is an innovative way to stay fit, be socially responsible, engage in a great team activity, learn about and support BHGH, and virtually travel across the U.S. and Latin America.
Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia | 3/5/2021, 6 a.m. On Friday, February 26, 2021, the public was introduced to the game-changing and palate-pleasing Everything Legendary Burger on ABC-TVâs âShark Tank.â Hyattsville, Maryland residents and founders Duane Myko Cheers (center); Danita Claytor (left); and Chef Jumoke Jackson (right) with their revolutionary plant-based creation the Everything Legendary Burger. Courtesy Photo/Everything Legendary Burger
Everything Legendary, a Maryland new-to-the-market plant-based meat company, scored a big deal with Mark Cuban on ABC TVâs âShark Tank.â Cuban offered the company $300,000 for a 22 percent stake.
âSo many people watch Shark Tank all the time. But very rarely do people actually take that next step,â Duane âMykoâ Cheers, the CEO of Everything Legendary, launched by a team of African American entrepreneurs. Along with Cheers a
Eryn Johnson | 3/5/2021, 6 a.m. The Colon Cancer Foundation, Squatty Potty and Baltimore-based DuClaw Brewing Company have partnered to offer âunicorn fartsâ beer for getting tested during National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. DuClaw Brewing Company
Colorectal cancer disproportionately affects the Black community, where the rates are the highest of any racial group in the United States. African Americans are about 20 percent more likely to be diagnosed with colorectal cancer and about 40 percent more likely to die from it than the national average.
As the second-deadliest form of cancer, it kills thousands of people each year, but if caught early it can be the most curable too. The only way to detect colorectal cancer is by getting a screening and between the months March and June last year, there was a 64 percent drop in colorectal cancer screenings because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dareise A. Jones | 3/5/2021, 6 a.m. Alan Upshur is currently a real estate professional with Coldwell Banker and co-owner of ABG Easy Hauling. He has received several awards for his work in real estate and was a 2017 NAACP honoree for his book âPrison to Paradise.â Courtesy Photo
Alan Upshur started writing the pages of his book Prison to Paradise during his first incarceration, but it was during the second that he really started committing to living the life he was writing about.
Upshur says he realized âprison is not a location, itâs a mentality.â The mindset of living every day to get by and survive is the cage he believes leads to physical imprisonment.