health and wellness

Black People Do Get Sunburnt

Unsun Cosmetics is a Los Angeles-based cosmetics company dedicated to providing both beauty and skin protection to everyone of all skin tones. Started by President Katonya Breaux in 2016, she founded this company to find a solution for the little black moles she’d grown up seeing on her family’s faces and then herself as she got older.   

Lee Headlines 10th District Health and Wellness Seminar

Dr. Cherilyn Lee, a certified natural healthcare professional, will headline the annual Health and Wellness Seminar hosted by the 10th Council District Women’s Steering Committee on Saturday, October 16, at 1 p.m. via Zoom. Lee will share techniques to prevent heart attacks and strokes, reduce the percentage of plaque in your body, understand your autonomic nervous system and more information to improve your health.

MC Lyte Making Dreams a Reality for African American Scholars

“…once I received the MC Lyte #EducateOURMen Scholarship to Dillard, I knew that I was destined to have a fulfilling college experience that was beyond my wildest dreams and I cannot thank MC Lyte, Lynn Richardson and the Hip Hop Sisters Foundation enough for investing in me and being one of my strongest support systems,” said Joshua Williams, a valedictorian at historically Black Dillard University.

Jenkins Empowers Clergy Wives to Transform Communities

     March is Women’s History Month – Champions of Faith This month, the L.A. Sentinel Religion section debuts “Champions of Faith,” a column about highlighting ordinary people inspired by their faith to make a difference in the community. In recognition of Women’s History Month, L.A.-area women will be featured during the month of March. What is your name and what is your ministry? I am Dr. Kathye D. Jenkins. I am the founder and president of the Cynthia Perry Ray Foundation, a nonprofit community-based outreach of the Gardena Valley and Vicinity Ministers’ Wives and Ministers’ Widows Sisterhood Connection. We