September 12, 2024

Blacks

Newsweek -In a new survey from BLK, a dating app for the Black community, 64 percent of Black Gen Z women said they were celibate. And a significant chunk, 63 percent, of those women said they have chosen celibacy relatively recently, in just the last six months. Altogether, the shift toward celibacy was high among the young Black dating community, with 43 percent of all Black Gen Z daters practicing celibacy, the dating site found.

NPR - Across the Gulf South, small Black-owned farms are finding ways to grow crops using climate-friendly practices while addressing long-standing injustices. Hilery Gobert owns one of these farms and has been trying to improve soil since he started farming in 2020. To do that, he rotates and uses cover crops to keep nutrients in the ground. He also grows rice by using drip irrigation instead of flooding the fields with water, producing methane, a potent planet-warming gas. Here’s what impacts climate-smart agriculture has on the climate.

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