Meghan Markle encouraged students to make International Women’s Day feel “like every day of the year” during a visit to a school in London on Friday. The Duchess of Sussex held a special assembly and also met with students in small groups at the […]
Today is International Women’s Day and to commemorate the occasion, TIME magazine has released a special double issue featuring 100 covers of women who defined a century, choosing one woman per year from 1920 through 2019. The founders of the Black Lives Matter […]
March 10, 2020 Edit A California-based grassroots movement dubbed March for Black Women San Diego is on a mission to ensure that Black women are celebrated, seen and heard. According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, in observance of International Women’s Day, the collective will further its […]
A Texas teen named JaTyrone Hollis was kept in a jail cell and away from his family for two-and-a-half years after being wrongfully charged with capital murder. Hollis’ attorney, Justin A. Moore, shared some of the details of the teen’s case in a press release, revealing that not only […]
The 15th annual BLACK ENTERPRISE Women of Power Summit kicked off on Thursday at the Mirage in Las Vegas with a gala that honored highly esteemed African American women who’ve reached the pinnacle of success in their careers. Each year the summit welcomes hundreds of professional women […]
When it comes to racist, hateful behavior the assumption is that young, white men have the market cornered. Two white women in Massachusetts decided to prove that they can be just as trash as their male counterparts. NBC News reports that 25-year-olds Jenny Ennamorati […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Rescuers searched through shattered Tennessee neighborhoods for bodies Tuesday, less than a day after tornadoes ripped across Nashville and other parts of the state as families slept. At least 24 people were killed, some in their beds, authorities said. […]
Three Baltimore men were exonerated in November after serving 36 years in prison for a crime they didn’t commit. Now they are getting a huge settlement from the state of Maryland in an attempt to right a wrong. In 1983, Alfred Chestnut, Ransom Watkins, and Andrew Stewart were 16 […]
At this year’s festival, guests will be able to sample more than 500 wines and enjoy bites from some of Philly’s best restaurants. Tickets are on sale now for the annual Philadelphia Wine Fest, where guests have the chance to taste more than 500 wines from producers around […]
Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, the House has approved legislation designating lynching as a hate crime under federal law. The bill, introduced by Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush and named after Till, comes 120 years after Congress first considered anti-lynching […]
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