Chadwick Boseman ‘s passing on Friday, Aug. 28 rocked the world. His fans and colleagues not only mourned his untimely death at age 43 but were also shocked by the news of his silent battle with colorectal cancer. Boseman was diagnosed with the disease in stage three in 2016 but remained tight-lipped about his health as he brought massive characters to the silver screen, including Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, and most notably, Marvel’s Black Panther. And while Boseman’s transition has been an unfortunate addition to the list of lives lost this year, it has also highlighted the need for more Black people to get regular screenings for the disease. According to the American Cancer Society, Black men and women get colon cancer at higher rates —24 and 19 percent, respectively—compared to other races. Additionally, INOVA says that Black people have the highest incidence of colorectal cancer and have the shortest survival rate of most cancers. In honor of Boseman’s life and legacy,...

As civil unrest continues to grow in Chicago following the death of George Floyd, a group of Chicago teens is fighting for social justice in a West Side food desert. By the Hand Club for Kids —a non-profit organization that empowers underserved communities—launched an initiative to transform a previously looted liquor store into a pop-up fresh food market, reports Block Club Chicago. Led by young men and women from Chicago’s Austin community, the project is a result of the residents’ frustration at the lack of healthy food resources in the area. When offered to attend a roundtable event to air their grievances, local kids were activated to create substantial change in their neighborhood. “What I heard coming out of that was that students wanted to take all those raw and powerful emotions and turn them into something good and do something from a social justice standpoint,” said Donnita Travis, executive director of the group. “The kids took the idea and ran with it.” View this post...

From retail to streaming, Amazon has made its mark and been successful in just about every sector its wanted to be a part of. The restaurant delivery market, however, has been different. Today Amazon announced that its ending its Amazon Restaurants service at the end of the month, according to Geekwire . This takes the tech giant out of a market that was already dominated by companies like Uber, Postmates, and Grubhub. Amazon first launched its restaurant delivery service in 2015. It started out in Seattle, but has since spread to over 20 major cities across the United States. With Amazon Restaurants, Prime members were able to order meals from the company’s website or through the Prime Now shopping app . “As of June 24th, we will be discontinuing the Amazon Restaurants business in the U.S.,” an Amazon spokesperson told GeekWire in a statement. “A small fraction of Amazon employees are affected by this decision, and many of those affected have already found new roles at Amazon....