Like any jazz artist, the ability to adapt and improvise is a welcome skill. For the people in the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland, that skill reconciles years of history and encourages the ...

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Amanda Ngoc Nguyen, a 33-year-old civil rights advocate and author, has become the first Vietnamese and Southeast Asian woman to go to space. Her journey aboard Blue Origin's all-female spaceflight ...

The author of 20 books and counting is dedicated to creating romantic worlds where Black women are wanted and pursued, in ...

Kadidja Dosso turned her childhood dream into a fast-growing beauty brand serving over 100,000 women. From West Philly to ...