A Black woman started a grocery store in Compton, California, to give her community access to supplies otherwise lacking in poor neighborhoods. Kia Patterson worked in grocery stores for 17 years before becoming the owner of a Grocery Outlet in 2017. After completing training with the company, she felt like […]
Misty Copeland continues to shed light on the importance of representation. Speaking about her role as the “ballerina princess” in Disney’s new movie “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms,” the cultural icon said her character will “live on forever.” In an interview with the Associated Press at the premiere […]
If you want proof that black women are the strongest people on the planet, look no further than 11-time world champion and four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, who not only lead the USA women to a World Gymnastics Championships in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday, […]
Michelle Obama’s memoir, “Becoming”, will arrive in bookstores on November 13. It will be published by Crown, a Penguin Random House imprint, which will also publish a book by Barack Obama in February. On Twitter, Michelle Obama wrote, “Writing ‘Becoming’ has been a deeply personal […]
Dozens of black women met on campus at Jackson State University to strategize about the upcoming midterm elections. “All of us who are in the room right now are midwives for transformation,” said Rukia Lumumba, co founder of the Electoral Justice Project. Black women have […]
Serena Williams dominated her semifinal match against Anastasija Sevastova on Thursday, winning 6-3, 6-0. Williams could be seen fighting back tears after she reached her first Open final in four years. The win came after having a child and fighting through post-natal complications, and eventually […]
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