It's more than a song; it is a message for Black people to preserve themselves on all levels, including their hair. At the ...

The Melanin Hive she’s referring to is Bumble’s Black ERG (employee resource group), which empowers the company’s Black employees to connect (globally) to empower and support one another.

Growing up as a Black girl in the suburbs, I always struggled to identify elements of myself in modern-day media. Whether it ...

Solving Sacramento Founded by visual artist and community leader Shonna McDaniels, the Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum is a ...

One Charleston artist wants you to sit and think when you come across her work but there’s also an element of representation she hopes to bring to the forefront.

especially for African-American women being that they’re often seen as aggressive. “I would say to any Black woman that I would rather her state what she needs to say than be quiet because ...

Leftenant-Colon, who was the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, died at the age of 104 on Jan. 8, 2025. (Leftenant-Colon family photo ...

In this analysis, the population includes three main groups: single-race, non-Hispanic Black people; non-Hispanic, multiracial Black people; and Black Hispanics. (The Black Hispanic population is not ...

A video of a white man pointing a gun at a Black woman, sometimes directly at her head, started because of a dispute at a gas pump. The video shows a man near a 2015 Ram pickup with a flatbed ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, died Jan. 8. Here, an American flag is presented to Leftenant-Colon ...

It becomes “us versus them,” and it weakens us as a nation. Living as a Black woman who looks white has allowed me to experience white privilege firsthand. Because people assume I am white, it is ...