Is The Body Positivity Movement Just A Trend? | ICYMI
The body positivity movement has been on the rise in the past few years ... but is it just trendy, or can this movement have staying power? “ICYMI By HuffPost” gets real about self-love and body image. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 18, 2019
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Rev. Leah Daughtry On Family, Faith And Activism | Between You & Me With CMT
Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani spoke with political strategist Rev. Leah Daughtry about civil rights, family activism and faith. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 18, 2019
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The Army Banned Her Dreadlocks — Until She Fought Back | Personal
Captain Whennah Andrews was forced to wear a wig because her dreadlocks didn’t comply with the Army’s grooming policy. But in doing so, she felt like her identity had been taken away, so she fought back. Now, all five branches of the military have lifted the ban on dreadlocks. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 18, 2019
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Inmates Rescue Infant From Locked Car
These Florida inmates rescued a baby from a locked car. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 18, 2019
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Fox News Fact-Checks Trump Advisor Stephen Miller
White House adviser Stephen Miller struggled to back up his justification for a national emergency on the southern border during a grilling by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 18, 2019
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Trump Admits He 'Didn't Need' To Declare National Emergency
President Donald Trump concedes he “didn’t need” to declare a national emergency, which is contrary to the legal argument his administration will likely need to make in court. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 15, 2019
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Students Of Color Reflect On Surviving Parkland | HuffPost Reports
“If anyone should be talking about gun violence, and how it affects us, it is black Marjory Stoneman Douglas students.” Black students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas felt ignored in the aftermath of last year’s school shooting. But they have something important to say. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 14, 2019
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Zombie Deer Disease Explained
Oh, deer! There’s a chronic wasting disease that is turning deer, moose and elk into “zombie-like” creatures. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 14, 2019
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How Other Countries Prevent Mass Shootings
One year after the Parkland shooting, no meaningful gun control legislation has been passed in the United States. But other countries learned from similar tragedies and have dramatically curbed gun violence. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 14, 2019
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Valentine's Day-Like Traditions All Around the World
People around the world show their love and affection in many different ways. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 14, 2019
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Donald Trump's Beautiful Life | The Trumpster Fire
Here’s proof that most things for President Donald Trump are “beautiful”. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 14, 2019
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Parents Arrested After Kids Found Locked In Dog Cages
At one Texas home, police discovered four children, including two who were malnourished and locked up in cages. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 14, 2019
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How Fairy Tales Fuel Our Obsession With Weddings | ICYMI
Think we put too much pressure on having the perfect wedding? Blame fairy tales. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 13, 2019
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Disney Releases 'Frozen 2' Teaser Trailer
In the “Frozen 2” teaser trailer, Disney shows us what Elsa, Anna, Kristoff and Olaf are up to now. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 13, 2019
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He Forgave His Son's Killer And Advocated For His Parole | Personal
Azim Khamisa’s son, Tariq, was murdered in 1995 at the age of 20. His killer was Tony Hicks, a 14-year-old boy who was ordered to pull the trigger by an older gang member. After the initial shock subsided, Azim realized that there were victims on both sides of the gun. Together with Tony’s grandfather, Ples Felix, Azim founded the Tariq Khamisa Foundation with the mission of preventing youth gun violence. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 13, 2019
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Late Night Comedians On Trump's Shutdown Deal
The late-night hosts discovered something very interesting while going over the figures of the new deal to avoid a second government shutdown. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 13, 2019
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How Do You Stop The Next School Shooting? | HuffPost Reports
Jack Sawyer allegedly planned a mass shooting at his former high school in Fair Haven, Vt. On Feb. 15, 2018, the day after the shooting in Parkland, Fla., he was arrested. How do we thwart mass shootings like this one? HuffPost spoke with the Vermont high school’s principal, the friend who reported Jack’s behavior, and the authorities who helped stop another tragedy. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 12, 2019
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What Do Schools Fail To Teach About Slavery? | Between The Lines
Slavery was the cause of the Civil War. Yet, some students are only just learning this today. This is partly because, after the war ended, some white southerners started organizations dedicated to promoting textbooks that taught that the war wasn’t about slavery, but rather about “states’ rights.” These false narratives continue to affect the way students are being taught Civil War history today. So why aren’t they taught the truth? And how does our failure to teach about slavery’s brutal legacy affect our ability to solve the issues facing our country today? Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 12, 2019
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The History of Blackface In America
Many prominent politicians and entertainers have worn blackface. The racist practice isn’t new. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 12, 2019
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The Evolution of Cardi B
From "Love And Hip Hop: New York" to "Bodak Yellow" to the 2019 Grammys, let’s take a look back at Cardi B’s fairy-tale rise to fame. Subscribe to HuffPost today: http://goo.gl/xW6HG
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February 12, 2019
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Rapper and actor @awkwafina is giving her fans a taste of what to expect in her upcoming Comedy Central show. The “Crazy Rich Asians” breakout star, born Nora Lum, announced in November that she’d be starring in her own series about her upbringing in Queens, New York. The show, which is also called “Awkwafina,” has received a 10-episode order. And this week, Awkwafina herself tweeted about the show, revealing that it will have an all-women writers room and that it will feature “my father and my grandma, in a single family house, with many expired Asian Calendars. This is a show about being raised by my grandma and dad in Queens, living at home and finding purpose,” she wrote. Awkwafina described the show as “an ode to Queens and the cultural BUFFET of people that helped shape me into the human I am.” // 📸: Getty Images
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Beautiful ✨ This bride wore her toddler down the aisle in these stunning wedding photos. Before her big day, Dalton Mort knew her wedding wouldn’t be complete without her daughter close by. The creative way she incorporated her little one made for gorgeous photos and a ceremony to remember. 💕 Mort carried her daughter Ellora, who was just shy of 2 at the time, in a wrap on her back. She wore her daughter down the aisle and throughout her wedding ceremony. // 📸: @fireandgoldphoto
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Love is wild. 🦁 Although the 2018 winners of London’s Natural History Museum’s renowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition were announced in October, the LUMIX People’s Choice Award was revealed recently, and the winning photo, titled “Bond of Brothers,” captures a beautifully tender moment between two male lions. Photographer David Lloyd (@davidlloyd) was in Tanzania when he spotted the two cats — most likely brothers — nuzzling each other’s faces for 30 seconds as he snapped his award-winning black-and-white photo. The contest notes that it is unusual for lions to do this for such a long amount of time. “I’m so pleased that this image did well,” Lloyd said. “Because it illustrates the emotion and feeling of animals and emphasizes that this is not limited to humans. It is something I think more people need to be aware of for the sake of all animals.” Four highly commended images also won the hearts of the public and rounded off the top five spots. Here are some other winners, including the heartbreaking image of a starving polar bear in the Canadian Arctic. 💔 // 📸: @nhm_wpy, @davidlloyd and @lumixuk, @bence_mate_photography, @wim_van_den_heever, @justinhofman, @mattmaranphoto
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Yes! 💜 Poet, singer, actress, dancer, civil rights activist and phenomenal woman Dr. Maya Angelou learned what love looked like from her mother, that love gives space and freedom for the other people to find themselves and be themselves. Love is freedom. // 📸: Getty Images
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Brie Larson is using her superpowers for good. ⚡️ The “Captain Marvel” star told Marie Claire in an interview published last week that she’s using her “privileges and powers” from her prominent role to ensure that the movie’s press tour is not “overwhelmingly” white and male. “About a year ago, I started paying attention to what my press days looked like and the critics reviewing movies, and noticed �it appeared to be overwhelmingly white male,” Larson told Keah Brown, a black journalist who has cerebral palsy. To ensure that her press tour for the iconic “Captain Marvel” film is different, the actor said she’s decided to make her press days “more inclusive.” Larson started by handpicking Brown to conduct the Marie Claire interview, an offer Brown described as a “game-changing” opportunity. “After speaking with you, the film critic Valerie Complex and a few other women of color, it sounded like across the board they weren’t getting the same opportunities as others,” Larson told Brown. “When I talked to the facilities that weren’t providing it, they all had different excuses.” Larson, who won the Best Actress Oscar for 2015’s “Room,” has always been an outspoken advocate for gender equality. It’s no surprise she sees her highly anticipated “Captain Marvel” role as an opportunity to highlight diversity and inclusion both in front of and behind the camera. “I want to go out of my way to connect the dots,” she continued. “It just took me using the power that I’ve been given now as Captain Marvel,” Larson added. ”[The role] comes with all these privileges and powers that make me feel uncomfortable because I don’t really need them. … But any uncomfortableness I feel is balanced by the knowledge that it gives me the ability �to advocate for myself and others.” // 📸: Disney & Marvel
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Because of Eunique Jones Gibson (@euniquejg), black kids can dream, imagine, and aspire to be whatever they want to be. Photographed here by @kgprojects, Gibson shows kids their future by introducing them to their past. In 2013, she founded @Becauseofthem We Can, a platform that teaches kids about the black excellence in history ― and in the present ― that they typically don’t learn about in school or in the media. Starting out as a photo series, Jones has been able to expand the brand by making facts about the giants of black history accessible for parents, educators and everyone else. She approaches the brand by doing things “the Woodson way,” looking to the father of Black History Month, Carter G. Woodson for inspiration. Gibson is reclaiming the limited narrative society has given black history by attacking revisionism head-on with facts that show our story is not monolithic. As a part of HuffPost Black Voices’ “We Built This” series, Gibson spoke to us about founding “Because Of Them We Can,” her new subscription box and the role education plays in showing black kids their potential. // Interview by: @_tarynitup // #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryBuiltThis
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You’re never too old to play with Barbie ― especially when you’ve been waiting 37 years for one you can see yourself in. Jessica Jewett is a Georgia-based author and artist who was born with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita and uses a wheelchair. When she learned this week through Instagram that the iconic doll brand is expanding and diversifying its offerings to include a Barbie with a prosthetic limb and a Barbie who uses a wheelchair, she had an emotional reaction. “It just took me back to being 5, 6, 7 years old, asking my mom and grandma why there aren’t dolls that look like me,” she told HuffPost. “I used to ask all the time why Barbie’s parent company Mattel couldn’t make a wheelchair for the doll.” It’s a long time coming for Jewett, who wrote on Twitter Tuesday that this was the toy she “needed as a little girl.” Growing up in the ’80s, she has no memory of seeing herself represented in dolls and toys like her friends did. “I would just start making up my own thing instead, which is probably why I became a writer,” she said. “I ended up having to make up my own stories that had nothing to do with me, because there was nothing like me out there.” That lack of representation and accessibility followed Jewett into other aspects of her life, as well. At her elementary school, the special education classrooms were in a back room, where she said the teachers were more like babysitters than actual teachers. “I used to sort of have this feeling from a really young age that I was different, but not understanding why that difference was something to be hidden,” she said. She went from shy kid to child advocate at just 12 years old, when her middle school refused to build an entrance ramp for her to use. // 📸: Mattel & Jessica Jewett
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Centuries before most English women could freely choose the direction of their lives, there was Joan of Leeds, a rebellious medieval nun who went to extreme lengths in an attempt to forge her own path. The 14th-century nun apparently faked her own death by creating a dummy “in the likeness of her body” before running away from her convent, according to archivists at the University of York. But her escape was discovered. “She now wanders at large to the notorious peril to her soul and to the scandal of all of her order,” Archbishop of York William Melton wrote (in Latin) about Joan in a record book dated 1318, the Guardian reports. Archivists at the University of York resurfaced details about Joan’s story last week, while translating and digitizing 16 registers in which the archbishops of York documented their business between 1304 and 1405. Joan was apparently so fed up with her life at St. Clement’s Nunnery in York that she concocted a wild plan to escape from her vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. According to a marginal note in the register, Joan simulated “a bodily illness” and “pretended to be dead.” With the help of some accomplices, she tricked her fellow Benedictine sisters into burying a lookalike dummy “in a sacred space” among actual deceased members of her order. Joan fled about 30 miles away, to the town of Beverley, according to the Church Times. When rumors about her scandalous escapade finally reached Melton, the horrified archbishop ordered a church official in Beverley to send her back to the convent. Melton’s note in the register describes how Joan had “impudently cast aside the propriety of religion and the modesty of her sex” and faked her death “in a cunning, nefarious manner.” “Having turned her back on decency and the good of religion, seduced by indecency, she involved herself irreverently and perverted her path of life arrogantly to the way of carnal lust and away from poverty and obedience,” Melton wrote. University of York historian Sarah Rees Jones, who is leading the digitizing project, told HuffPost that her team isn’t sure if Joan ever returned to the convent ― either willingly or by force. // 📸: Getty Images
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Yes, Mandy Moore! 👏 // 📸: Getty Images
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Glory Edim (@guidetoglo) began building her empire of knowledge at an early age. Photographed here by @kgprojects, the founder of @wellreadblackgirl and author debuted her literary kingdom in the form of a digital book club that ensures black women who love reading, writing or both have a space to connect. With monthly reading selections and Twitter chats based on books by black women authors, the Nigerian-American has not only helped fill a huge void, but nourished a demographic often forgotten or erased by the literary world. Since its 2015 launch, Edim has developed Well-Read Black Girl into an annual book festival in Brooklyn and an anthology, both of the same name. Edim’s work empowers black women to feel seen and to start a revolution with their words. Between and beyond the pages, she is an author, a nerd, an advocate and a force. And she has no intention of slowing down. As a part of HuffPost’s “We Built This” series for Black History Month, Edim talked to us about her passion for literacy, her vision for Well-Read Black Girl and the urgency of protecting black women. // Interview by: @_tarynitup // #BlackHistoryBuiltThis #BlackHistoryMonth
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Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) ― leading members of the new class of progressive congresswomen ― joined together Thursday to say they would not support the latest government spending package because it includes an increase in funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Late Wednesday, lawmakers reached a budget deal that, if approved, would prevent another government shutdown at the end of the week and fund the federal government through September. The legislative package does not include the more than $5 billion that President Donald Trump has long demanded to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump’s insistence led to a standoff with lawmakers late last year and the longest-ever government shutdown in U.S. history. However, the new deal does include increased funding for ICE and Customs and Border Protection, according to the Democratic representatives’ joint statement. “In this country, our diversity is our greatest strength. Immigrants fuel our nation’s economy, enrich our nation’s culture, and enhance our social fabric,” they said in their statement. “And yet, this Administration continues to threaten the dignity and humanity of our immigrant population,” the congresswomen said, condemning the Trump administration’s separation of thousands of migrant children from their parents at the border and its efforts to restrict entry of asylum-seekers. “The Department of Homeland Security does not deserve an increase in funding [emphasis in original], and that is why we intend to vote no on this funding package.” The lawmakers went on to name the “abusive agencies” that would be receive more money under the bill, including CBP receiving nearly $950 million above current funding levels and ICE getting an increase of more than $500 million. There would also be $1.37 billion for 55 miles of border wall and funding for an 11 percent increase in beds in migrant detention centers. // 📸: Getty Images
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Prince Harry spent Valentine’s Day... in an igloo. ❄
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