A Black Girl's Guide To Weight Loss

On RFK Jr.: Two con artists walk into a bar…

Erika Nicole Kendall — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 03:06:46 +0000

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. conned his way through the pandemic, all the way to a cabinet position on the current presidential administration, and left a trail of destruction in his wake.

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Rich white guys are making money through creating vaccine disinformation campaigns. They’re targeting our community the hardest.

Erika Nicole Kendall — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 15:59:06 +0000

There's a mad dash to influence Black people's thinking on COVID-19 and the vaccine. And it's not Black people behind it.

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It is time to start firing racists. Start with Dr. Susan Moore’s doctor.

Erika Nicole Kendall — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 02:05:58 +0000

If medicine is solely going to be about the money, then it's time people start losing their money when they commit injustices against Black people.

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Detoxes are dumb, leave Lizzo alone, and other thoughtful things

Erika Nicole Kendall — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 01:55:22 +0000

"Your body is perfectly yours, even if it ain’t perfect to anybody else. If you only knew the complexities your body possesses you would be so proud of it."

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Hell naw, Black people don’t trust the vaccine. But here’s how you fix that.

Erika Nicole Kendall — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 21:52:36 +0000

Medical science has an abysmal track record with Black America. There simply isn't any other way to put it. There's the time when scientists deliberately watched Black men with syphilis suffer and denied them care as a means of testing the ramifications of the illness. But there's more than that. So, so much more.

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Does a weight loss blog belong in a list of body positive spaces? Of course not, but…

Erika Nicole Kendall — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 22:25:50 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, a popular Instagram account referenced me as a “body positive” woman of color. I very politely thanked them for the inclusion, and snuck back into

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Gen X, it’s time to have a serious conversation about your health.

Erika Nicole Kendall — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 18:18:18 +0000

Research is showing that diseases largely associated with approaching retirement age are being found well before we would normally expect. Conditions that are normally found in 50 and 60 year olds are being uncovered in younger and younger people.

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It’s time to talk about black male incels.

Erika Nicole Kendall — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 20:44:50 +0000

Perhaps we need to consider that "incel" is, when looked at through a lens that doesn't merely fixate on white men, a term that includes a lot of the behavior that we see displayed in our community every day.

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Your state’s approach to ‘re-opening’ tells you whether they believe Black Lives Matter.

Erika Nicole Kendall — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 20:40:13 +0000

All across the country, we’re watching communities go through the same thing we went through here in New York, people testing positive for coronavirus disease (or COVID-19), and then the

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No, food is not ‘just food’ in the Black community, and that’s okay.

Erika Nicole Kendall — Thu, 28 May 2020 00:11:17 +0000

Recipes are more than roots in a rich family tree still bearing fruit, they're connection to the people who loved us. That's more than food—that's Soul Food.

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The Empathy Gap: Coronavirus is hitting Black communities harder than anyone else. Of course it is.

Erika Nicole Kendall — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 22:53:40 +0000

It's too easy to blame Black people's rates of heart disease and diabetes for the high rate of COVID-19 related mortality. It's so, so much deeper than that.

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I didn’t take the coronavirus seriously… until I caught it.

Erika Nicole Kendall — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 19:21:42 +0000

My experience with the COVID-19 disease, and why we need to take it as seriously as possible.

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The Truth About Why There Aren’t Any Grocery Stores in the ‘Hood

Erika Nicole Kendall — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 18:49:46 +0000

People will tell you any old self-hating nonsense about why there aren't any good grocery stores in the hood. It's time to learn the truth.

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#BlackCulinaryHistory: Jessica B. Harris, A National Treasure

Erika Nicole Kendall — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 20:05:52 +0000

Celebrating the decades of work of Jessica B. Harris, a phenomenal author who chronicles the history of Black food culture.

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This is What White Supremacy in Medical Research Looks Like

Erika Nicole Kendall — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 18:07:41 +0000

There’s been this one thing that has been nagging at me ever since I first saw it, about a year ago: But a study published Tuesday in The Journal of

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Study: Hair care might be barrier to health for black women. Should doctors be talking to us about it?

Erika Nicole Kendall — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 02:41:47 +0000

We can barely get doctors to hear us when we talk about the pain from bones dangling from sockets, or other real and sincere health problems. Doctors are supposed to care about something like our hair?

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I told y’all almost a decade ago to stop listening to Jillian Michaels. Y’all don’t listen.

Erika Nicole Kendall — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 21:51:02 +0000

Over the years, I’ve become conflicted in discussing celebrities. I didn’t want to feel like I was elevating—actively or passively—one kind of body type over another; and I didn’t want

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I Finally Answer the Question, “What Do You Think About Weight Loss Surgery?”

Erika Nicole Kendall — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 16:52:44 +0000

And there are people who will ask, "Well, can't I just do that on my own, by myself, without surgery?" Of course you can. But if your doctor is scared for your health, and believes you are at severe risk, what decisions will you make, then? It's certainly not for me to judge. However, there is cause for concern, here.

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Marriage, Weight Gain, and The Interchangeable, Replaceable Woman

Erika Nicole Kendall — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 14:45:57 +0000

For weeks, I watched people across social media argue about whether a man was justified in cheating on his wife because she gained weight. Don’t worry—I’m not interested in talking

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Happy 10th Anniversary, A Black Girl’s Guide to Weight Loss!

Erika Nicole Kendall — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 12:19:07 +0000

On July 19th, 2009, A Black Girl's Guide to Weight Loss was born. Today, in 2019, it turns ten years old. Almost as old as my child!

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