Lakeisha Holloway is the young woman charged with mowing down a group of pedestrians in her car on the Las Vegas Strip last Sunday while…
Dear Black girls everywhere in the world: Natural hair is beautiful and you are perfect the way you are.
Dorothy Gilliam overcame a major barrier at The Washington Post newspaper by becoming the popular publication’s first Black female reporter. Ms. Gilliam continues to advocate for…
Every family has a health story and in Jacqueline Sheppard’s family cancer is a running theme. For the 38-year-old Maryland mother it’s hard for her…
Gwen Jimmere, the founder and CEO of Naturalicious, is the first Black woman to patent a natural hair care product. In the fast-growing natural hair…
Thousands of women (and men) are banding together to share their stories and fight to find a cure for breast cancer. With October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, social media activists have sought to maintain a culture of awareness for the better -- and sometimes the worse.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – For the women of color who attended the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March, a collective challenge awaits: helping to ease the…
A group of Black women are speaking out against a trendy London nightclub after they were denied entry for being "too fat" and "too dark."
Check out some of the best photos of the week. #BlackGirlsRock-ed the Emmy’s, Ms. Cathy Hughes gets a street corner, plus much more!
In his second term, President Obama is speaking more openly about events as he wants, especially those concerning Black America.
It's time to get rid of these tired stereotypes.
*not all Black men …but enough Black men come at us sideways and get things twisted like a Slinky to make me want to presently clear my throat, crack my knuckles, and get a few things off my ample chest. Today’s address is prompted by the inane ramblings of one Mr. Cory Haywood, in […]
