Author: Shekari Philemon

Eighty percent. That is the share of Black women who will develop uterine fibroids at some point in their lifetime, according to the National Institutes of Health. It is one of the most striking statistics in women’s reproductive health — and one of the least discussed outside of clinical settings. Fibroids are noncancerous growths that develop in or around the uterus. They range from barely detectable to significantly large, and their symptoms range from manageable to genuinely debilitating. Heavy bleeding, persistent pelvic pain, frequent urination and complications with fertility are all part of the picture for many women living with…

The hair is growing. The retention is the real problem  The frustration is real and it is common. You are consistent with your routine, you are taking the vitamins and you have watched your hair sit at the same length for what feels like an unreasonable amount of time. It is easy to conclude that Black hair simply does not grow as fast as other hair types. That conclusion, while understandable, is not accurate — and the distinction matters enormously for how the problem gets addressed. Black hair grows at approximately the same rate as other hair types — roughly…

Temporal, a San Francisco-based software startup, just closed a $300 million funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, valuing the company at $5 billion. That’s double the $2.5 billion valuation from just four months ago. This rapid doubling signals serious investor confidence in AI infrastructure as the next frontier of tech investing. Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sapphire Ventures joined the Series D round alongside Sequoia Capital. Founded in 2019, Temporal builds open-source software and cloud services that ensure what they call “durable execution” of code. If your system crashes, it resumes exactly where it left off without engineers manually rebuilding everything.…

That late-night pasta is not random. It is your brain running a very specific chemical errand It is Friday night. The week was long, draining and possibly featured at least one conversation you are still replaying. You did not plan to eat pasta at 10 p.m. You were not even that hungry. And then somehow a full bowl of carbohydrates appeared in front of you and felt, genuinely, like the only reasonable response to the week you just had. You did not fail at discipline. Your brain placed an order and your hands filled it. Carbohydrate cravings after stress or…

Fruit, honey, juice and flavored yogurt feel like clean eating — your body is reading something closer to dessert You woke up early, skipped the pastry, pulled out the blender and made something green or fruity and congratulated yourself on a strong start. That smoothie felt like discipline. It had fruit in it. It had yogurt. It possibly had the word “detox” adjacent to its recipe title somewhere on the internet. And yet by mid-morning you are hungry again, slightly foggy and wondering why clean eating feels like it is not working. The smoothie might be why. What is actually…

Love lowers stress, shared meals become a ritual and comfortable habits add up quietly Nobody puts this in the relationship milestones. First date, first trip together, accidentally syncing each other’s eating habits until neither of you fits your jeans the same way. It is one of the quieter side effects of a genuinely good relationship, and it happens more often than most people are willing to admit out loud. Weight gain in happy relationships is real, documented and has nothing to do with letting yourself go or losing motivation. It is the natural result of several things happening simultaneously —…

Weak glutes, tight hips and poor form are behind most workout knee pain  Knee pain after working out gets blamed on aging more than almost anything else in fitness. You hit a certain point, the thinking goes, and your knees just start to go. You accept it. You modify around it. You add knee sleeves and glucosamine to your shopping cart and quietly start avoiding exercises you used to do without thinking. But for a significant number of people, the knees are not the actual problem. They are just the location where the problem shows up. Knee pain during and…

The Chicago Bears’ stadium situation was already complicated. Now it is complicated, urgent and slightly chaotic, which is a genuinely impressive achievement for a process that has been dragging on for years. On Wednesday, Illinois lawmakers canceled a pivotal hearing that could have moved the team closer to breaking ground on a new stadium in Arlington Heights — without setting a new date to reschedule it. No explanation beyond needing more time to work through details. No new timeline. Just a quiet cancellation while Indiana lawmakers, as if they had been waiting for exactly this moment, advanced competing legislation designed…

There are good years, great years and then whatever Figma just had. The San Francisco-based design platform closed out 2025 by blowing past analyst expectations, crossing the $1 billion annual revenue mark for the first time in its history and delivering what its own leadership described as the company’s best quarter on record. For a company that spent years being known primarily as the tool designers use to argue about fonts, the numbers tell a significantly more ambitious story. The growth is real, the enterprise customers are spending more and the artificial intelligence push that skeptics might have dismissed as…