MLK's voice continues to ring out against injustice, despite attempts to erase Black history. His legacy remains urgent and needed today.

But when it comes to credit, power, and leadership, Black women are routinely left out of the conversation. While white writers often glide into high-profile editorial roles with ease, Black women ...

In the glaring spotlight of Hollywood’s highest honor stands Halle Berry, who in 2002 became the first and only Black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her victory for Monster’s ...

As we enter International Black Women’s History Month, Black art has always been a means of documenting and creating history, putting out powerful stories that depict Black women’s experiences ...

The night highlighted Black women as fundamental to a century of defining and redefining impact in country music's culture and history. The event was held in the Appleton Room of Fisk's Jubilee ...

In the documentary, Halle Berry questions her 2002 Oscar win: Did it really change anything for women of color? For my sisters...our journey?” As the only Black woman to have won an Oscar for ...

But sitting with Amy Poehler on her new “Good Hang” podcast, the Emmy winner shared that her own Janine Teagues was met with criticism from Black women because she was not perfectly put together.

On April 10, 2025, Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles Inc., known locally as BWL, celebrated 50 years with a reception in Culver City, California. BWL is a nonprofit corporation formed ...

With her new presidential action flick G20, Viola Davis understands the desire to politicize her role. Noting they made the movie before Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election to Donald Trump, the ...

The 47-year-old reality TV figure and LGBTQ+ advocate just opened a re-entry house for formerly incarcerated Black trans women in Atlanta. “Today was THE day! I can’t explain how my heart ...

But on Saturday, amidst all the creativity, there was one kind of sign, printed for the masses, that was selling like ...

It was a brief mention, almost an afterthought, but what it marked was monumental: Crumpler had just become the first Black woman in the United States to earn a medical degree. Yet for decades ...