Since the start of the pandemic, it seems companies have insisted on staking their flag in “diversity.” The term has become a buzzword and an insistence on attempting to prove […]
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She Represents: Autumn Brown Yarbrough of Nu Standard
Autumn Brown Yarbrough is the founder and CEO of Nu Standard | CBY Beauty Inc., “making hair wellness products for the busy woman the GO!” Yarbrough is a honors graduate […]
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She Reps: Kiyundra Jones
Kiyundra Jones was appointed as President of the Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce and Oak Cliff Empowered, Inc. as of July 2014 where she serves the membership as its Chief […]
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African American Leaders Speak Out on SCOTUS Roe Reversal
By Staff and Wire Report | Los Angeles Sentinel African American leaders across the nation largely condemned the U.S. Supreme Court ruling issued on June 24, overturning the federal abortion […]
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We Need to Talk About Brittany Griner
By Liz Dwyer Originally posted in Word in Black Back in 2013, after Brittney Griner became the first-round draft pick for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, ESPN reporter Holly Rowe asked […]
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Supreme Court Officially Overturns Roe V. Wade
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Americans no longer have a constitutional right to abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday, June 24, to […]
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The #Metoo Movement and Black Women
The #Metoo movement has illuminated how much powerful men are allowed to get away with in Hollywood and in turn, has led to many of them being taken down. However, with all of the good the movement has been able to bring, we also must reconcile with how #Metoo may have left Black girls and women behind.
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The Afiya Center Looks Ahead to Summer Health Events
On the heels of Black Maternal Health Week and as a part of our Minority Health Month issue, it only makes sense to highlight the ongoing and upcoming work of the only reproductive justice organization founded and led by Black women in Texas — the Afiya Center.
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Talley Dunn Gallery presents new solo exhibit by Vicki Meek
The Talley Dunn Gallery just presented a solo exhibition of renowned and nationally recognized artist Vicki Meek. The artist’s inaugural exhibition at the gallery, At What Point Do We Disappear? […]
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Black Women and Medical Pain
Black women have historically been experimented on and their medical pain often ignored. Where does this disregard for Black women’s medical pain come from, and what work is being done […]