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Get Good with Money. James Frazier's feature is part of Newark News and Story Collaborative made possible by grants from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and the Victoria Foundation. The Newark News and Story Collaborative, headed by WBGO Community Engagement reporter Brit Harley, is committed to elevating community-driven storytelling to fill information gaps in both local and national media. The Collaborative trains community members in storytelling, media making and other creative art forms to share and amplify their experiences. It’s laying the groundwork for a collaborative network th...

9 Black Financial Educators You Should Be Following on Instagram Whether you’re paying off student loans or saving to buy a home one of these savvy sisters has the secret sauce for you. Personal finance expert Jamila Souffrant Gone are the days when financial advisors were confined to older White men (and the occasional woman) who rarely if ever understood the nuances between Black folks and our relationships with money. Thanks to social media, a much broader range of experts in this space abounds – and we can easily access their advice from the convenience of our cellular ...

Twenty-two years ago today (April 7, 1999) was an historic day for Shania Twain -- and for country music. It was on that date that Twain's 1997 album  Come on Over was certified diamond, for sales of 10 million copies, making Twain the first female country artist to earn two diamond-certified albums (her sophomore record, 1995's  The Woman in Me, was also certified diamond, in 1997). Released in November of 1997,  Come on Over was certified double platinum, for sales of 2 million units, just one month later. The record became the best-selling country album of the 1990s and of all time,...

How's it going in that boiling lobster pot of stress? The last year of living in a pandemic has stretched human coping skills so thin that experts fear many of us may soon snap, leaving people around the world coping with a mental health crisis of catastrophic proportions. In the United States alone, a recent analysis by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found reports of anxiety or depression climbed from 36% to 42% in the six months between August 2020 and February 2021. Yet some people — in fact, many people — somehow manage to weather stress just fine. Do tho...

The pandemic has stressed us to the breaking point, experts fear, but there is a way to fight back against the damage stress can do.