Black women in the U.S. are more likely than white women to be pressured into birthing procedures without their explicit…
Influential feminist author and activist bell hooks inspired across generations with her expansive body of work on racism, feminism, and…
Minnie Riperton, singer of Billboard chart-topper “Lovin’ You,” left her stamp on music with her five-octave vocal range and angelic…
FundBlackFounders, a rewards-based crowdfunding platform, is breathing life into small Black-owned businesses—from a card game that turns awkward questions into…
Tori Cooper wears a “Stop Killing Black Trans Women” shirt while declaring her love of house music and debunking misinformation…
With an estimated 281,550 new breast cancer cases this year alone, awareness is essential. President Biden ushered in Breast Cancer…
Actor and “Real Table Talk” Host Jada Pinkett Smith celebrates her 50th birthday today. From her early beginnings in “Menace…
Beloved Togolese icon Bella Bellow found extraordinary success as a singer in West Africa and beyond before suffering a fatal…
Sculptor of New York World’s Fair commission “The Harp” and Julius Rosenwald Fellowship- winning “Gamin,” Augusta Savage built community as…
Marie Vieux-Chauvet, author of the long-lost “Amour, Colère et Folie” and other novels, spent much of her life exiled from…
August is a time of revolution and social change. It’s a month when Black revolutionaries were born and Black revolutions…
Black hair is an intimate part of an individual’s identity and being. Yet as of Saturday, the two-year anniversary of…