President Obama on Saturday dedicated his keynote speech at the Phoenix Awards to Black women

  *not all Black men …but enough Black men come at us sideways and get things twisted like a Slinky to make me want to presently clear my throat, crack my knuckles, and get a few things off my ample chest. Today’s address is prompted by the inane ramblings of one Mr. Cory Haywood, in […]

Although the struggle can definitely get real, we should remember that it serves a purpose. Here are 10 quotes from successful Black women to remind you to keep moving forward.

Walking into the locker room at the gym one afternoon, I saw a Black woman sitting on the bench right in front of the spot where I had put my things in a locker. I smiled and made eye contact as I approached, and I said “hello.” The facial expression I received in return could […]

We must recognize the stories of women like Sandra Bland, Miriam Carey and Malissa Williams with the same amount of passion and relentlessness as we do for Black men in combatting police brutality.

Yesterday, women’s right’s groups encouraged women nationwide to symbolically clock out of work at 2:07 p.m. in order to bring attention to the wage gap Black women face in the workplace. In particular, the Atlanta Women for Equality (AME) coalition also encouraged women to take to Twitter with the hashtag #BlackWomenEqualPay to help raise awareness to […]

As Republicans have been leading campaigns to close Planned Parenthood clinics, they’ve been leaving us without options to protect ourselves.

There a lot of different ideas about what it means to be beautiful, and one new docuseries is hoping to explore every facet of it. Pretty is something that is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. Depending on where you’re from that could look a lot different. Adding race to […]