Adidas issued a limited collection of NCAA basketball shirt inspired by Gee’s Bend.

The collection comprises a colourful, complicated craftsmanship created by the descendants of enslaved women He lives in Gee’s Bend, a small rural community on the Alabama River.

The sports brand also commissioned Quilters to make five quilts with an area of ​​7 feet x 7 feet for his or her partners HBCU: Alabama State, Alcorn State, Grambling State, Arkansas-Pine Bluff and Prairie View A&M. Women created quilts with school clothing.

On February 22, Adidas sponsored HBCU Legacy Bowl, where athletes wore non -standard T -shirts inspired by the Bend Gee quilt.

As a part of the HBE Adidas initiative, it contained a brief film on its Instagram website tells the story Among the picnics from Alabama, the film was produced by MONDAY MONDAY PAPER MONDAY PAPER.

In addition, HBE donated a social subsidy on sewing Gee’s Bend Heritage Builders, a non-profit quilters organization to make sure a continuation of the mission of cultural protection and constructing community.

Pility Bend Gee began to Instagram to precise their gratitude for multi -layered cooperation.

“Thanks, Adidas, for everything, the cooperation of this Gee’s Bend is so exciting that we had a great time in New York and I liked it very much when your team came to Bend Gee. I’m looking forward to the next phase. “

Gee’s Bee covers were presented in worthy galleries throughout America, including the High Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Smithsonian. In 2006, the US postal service launched a series of commemorative postage stamps depicting historical quilts.

Other adidas’s awards Honoring the black initiative of perfection This yr, it includes Sekou Thornell, the founder and creative director of Kitboys Club, the Athleisure brand focused on football; and Jaycin Almond, founding father of the Tender Foundation, support group for marginalized single moms in the Atlanta Metro.

Ayesha Curry feels that bringing a marriage with the star NBA Steph Curry in the first place-nawet in front of their children-he will likely be good parents to her and Steph. However, the Internet is split on this subject.

The topic of marriage Currys and their family balance, raising 4 children, appeared during the last pop-up in California for a 35-year-old life brand and actress, Sweet Lipp.

“I feel that for us our relationship is at all times in the first place. Then we’re parents – said Ayesha People magazine. They are divided by 4 children with a 36-year-old point guard for Golden State Warriors-Daughters Riley, 12, Ryan, 9 years old, and sons of Canon, 6 and Caius, 7 months.

“And this works for us because then you have two happy people raising children at home. So the family sector in our lives is always in the first place. “

Explaining their dynamics further, she added: “And then honestly, there are simply people who are smarter than us and know what they are doing and can make everything work.”

By doing so, she said that the couple has the space “to be creative, and they allow us to really appear as we decide. And I think it was for us. “

Two who initially met as teenagers in their church youth group in Charlotte, NC, have been married since 2011.

While their philosophy has been working for them for nearly a yr and a half, he has many divided on the Internet.

“Intelligent couples know about it,” one user began Post on X. “You can’t forget and neglect the real relationship for children. What happens when children leave the house, and now you realize that you don’t even know who the other person is because you have focused only on children for the last 18 years. “

Another user on the platform wrote“I think that people take this wrong way … As it means that they do not love their children or something like that … but I think that a good way to look at it is to cultivate your relationship in your partner, helps you be better parents together . “

Meanwhile, Someone said“By placing your future, you are seeds, one of the few people who love you unconditionally, below the ring is crazy. Children teach you more than your partner, and if you get them well, it will be the best investment you have ever done. The relationship does not cut off at 18. “

Reflecting the same sentiment, Another user has been added“I disagree. Children should always be in the first place. So many people have problems with abandonment because of their parents, so then they stick to their spouses at the expense of everyone else. Marriages end, parenthood is not. “

Some even consider the perspective of putting a partner to the first funny.

“Literally there is no reasonable situation in which you have to put a partner in front of children, you can literally not think about him. They are literally children of Lmao – he wrote User on x.

At last, In the post, One user reminded others whose relationship was: “strange comments are their relationship for some reason.”

As at all times in the case of what works for one couple may not work for an additional – Currys do what works for them and probably will proceed.

At a time when black and marginalized groups are attacked, Adiba Nelson drops a book for youngsters, which strengthens black aesthetics and identity. The creator of Afro-Latin does it through the eyes of Yadyra, a young girl who invites young readers during a natural hair journey :. It starts with the ritual that her hair is intertwined and spare on Sunday. Yadira defines this process and is concerned with the Cowrie shell, which her mother uses as decorations. What is developing is a cultural and historical dialogue between mother and daughter. The conversation beautifully reproduces the mythology of the African traditional religion practiced in Black Latin culture – against the background of equally beautiful illustrations created by Alleanna Harris.

History continues when Yadira goes to school. The young girl is beautifully intertwined and with beads, but she wonders if she’s going to fit and make friends.

You cannot ignore care and integration displayed on this text.

The muffled but visual topic in the book is the disability of Yadira – he sits in a wheelchair when he wraps his hair and uses an infantry when he arrives in school.

According to research conducted by the Children’s Book Center, only 3.4% of kid’s books presents a disabled child as the foremost character. This number it contrasts sharply from thE 29.2% of kid’s books with animals as the foremost characters.

In weaving on this often ignored reality, in such a way, he shows young readers who move the disabled that they’re seen, that they matter, they are literally normal. He actually causes a conversation amongst disabled children and in the surroundings, and children are concerned with disability.

Yadira fights with school and makes a couple of discoveries. She is full of confidence that her mother gave her and armed with an Afro-Latina pride that runs through her heritage.

It ends with the creator’s letter and a scheme of woven hairstyles.

This story is an excellent reading for youngsters three and older. It was published on January 25 and will be found on the shelves of your favorite black bookstores and online from black bookstores.