Over the July 4th weekend, I was in New Orleans with about 500,000 others. It was the Essence Music Festival, and as a 33-year-old Black…
Vanessa Williams has accomplished a lot in her three-decade career. The former Miss America released 8 CD’s, including one that went triple platinum and starred…
Let’s go there. The big lie: education=financial success. Or does it? I have been in school since age six and am a tenured professor turned…
Yes, it’s the ladies turn this week. We need your vote again to choose the greatest female R&B singer of all time. Is it Gladys,…
With all the talk about obesity and chronic disease in the African-American community, the surgeon general is out to educate Moms about an early preventive…
Front and center in the ongoing debate around women’s rights are the issues of health care and freedom of choice. During a tense election cycle,…
Although predominately White Nebraska has experienced a growth in racial diversity, the change in numbers also highlights how women of color in the state are…
Who says Black women don’t workout? Two sistas, Toni Carey and Ashley Hicks, founded “Black Girls Run!” in 2009 in an effort to fight growing…
As if Black women didn’t have enough to worry about with the negative media portrayals or psychologists questioning their attractiveness, certain Black male celebrities seem…
Dear other woman, Stop being trifling. Signed, Womanhood (well, minus all polygamists) This Valentine’s Day some woman will again feel like “shyt people feel on…
Black women view themselves as especially self-confident and independent-minded-more so than Caucasian women. In a recent poll conducted by beauty mag Allure magazine, Black women rated themselves three times as likely as Caucasian women to rate themselves at the ‘hot’ end of the spectrum. Tell us something we don’t know! Black women have always viewed […]
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and according to BlackDoctor.org “African-American females experience higher death rates from breast cancer than any other racial or ethnic group.” This is partially due to African-American women tending to have more aggressive tumors. The fact is not meant to scare you, but it is meant as a wake up […]
