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FDA’s plan to ban hair relaxer chemical called too little, too late

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Eunice Hunton Carter, first Black woman to work as a NYC prosecutor, helped take down powerful mobster

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If you are an adult, there is no such thing as ‘dressing your age’

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Watch: A new bill allows a lawsuit for calling someone racist

A bill now in the Florida Senate would make it defamation to accuse someone there of being racist, homophobic, transphobic…
/ January 24, 2024
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Ms. Black Kentucky has ventured into the world of fashion with Shein

Ciara Johnson, the current Ms. Black Kentucky, has some of her clothing pieces available on the online shopping retailer Shein.
/ January 24, 2024
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Alice Dunnigan and Ethel L. Payne, first Black female White House reporters, honored with eponymous lectern

The names of the first Black female White House reporters live on with the designation of a new press room…
/ January 23, 2024

Atlanta’s Spelman College just got the largest-ever single donation to an HBCU

Spelman said that it would use $75 million to endow scholarships, the rest going toward academic development and housing.
/ January 19, 2024
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Snoop Dogg’s daughter, Cori Broadus, 24, shares that she had a ‘severe’ stroke

Snoop Dogg’s daughter Cori Broadus reveals on social media she had a stroke early Thursday morning.
/ January 18, 2024
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Learning to walk alongside a leading lady: Refining my faith as a recovering misogynist

As Black women leaders increasingly seem under siege, Rev. Calvin Taylor Skinner examines his own struggle with misogyny.
/ January 14, 2024

A cervical tumor nearly cost me my life and changed how I viewed period products. I founded Femly to push back.

Like many Black women entrepreneurs, I launched my company without major funding from venture capital investors.
/ January 12, 2024