- 1. Mental Health Awareness Month: 14 Celebrities That Are Vocal About Their Mental Health Struggles
- (Living)
- ... As a woman of color who promotes therapy, the actress started a project that pushed for free “virtual therapy” for African-Americans affected by the pandemic. She spoke to BUST about the Boris Lawrence ...
- Created on 24 May 2022
- 2. Taraji P. Henson Was Just Appointed To The White House's HBCU Board Of Advisors – But What Does That Even Mean
- (Feminism)
- ... mental health advocate, founding the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation in 2018 to help end the mental health stigma in the African-American community, named after her father who suffered with mental health ...
- Created on 08 April 2022
- 3. Madison Butler Disrupts Gender Pay Inequity For Black Women, With Her Black Speaker Collection, a Database Full of Voices That Need To Be Heard
- (Feminism)
- ... Black Speakers Collection database is replete with over 2000+ highly qualified Black speakers that are experts in a variety of fields and specialize in a multitude of topics outside of African American ...
- Created on 25 March 2022
- 4. HOORAY, The Equal Rights Amendment Passed! Or DID It?!?
- (Feminism)
- ... and was created to give African Americans citizenship, civil rights, and legal rights) in 1868, but that was not recognized as valid, and obviously, the 14th Amendment still stands. However, as of the ...
- Created on 11 March 2022
- 5. 6 Things You Might Not Know About Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson
- (Feminism)
- ... has already been vetted by the Senate. Jackson received her commission in June of 2021 to the U.S. Court of Appeals in DC. If confirmed, she’ll not only be the first African-American woman to hold the ...
- Created on 25 February 2022
- 6. K. Michelle's New Series "My Killer Body With K. Michelle" Explores The Darker Side of Plastic Surge
- (TV)
- ... Baartman). Baartman, an African woman from the Eastern Cape of South Africa, possessed a sizable derriere that garnered alot of attention and not positively. Her steatopygic aesthetic became the fascination ...
- Created on 18 February 2022
- 7. 13 Women of Color-Owned and Operated Bookstores You Can Support Right Now
- (Books)
- ... Lit: Bar Bronx, NY The Lit Bar opened its doors in 2019. It is the only brick and mortar bookstore serving the 1.5 million people located in the Bronx, NY. Noelle Santos, who is of African American and ...
- Created on 04 February 2022
- 8. "Harlem," The New Sitcom by "Girls Trip" Writer Tracy Oliver, Just Might Be the Fluffy-Lighthearted TV Fare Black Women Need in these “Post-Pandemic” Tim
- (TV)
- ... the world something else as well: another viewpoint of modern African American women told through the Black-American woman’s eyes. Header: screenshot from youtube Middle and bottom photos: Prime ...
- Created on 16 December 2021
- 9. Celebrated Author and Intersectional Feminist bell hooks Has Died
- (Feminism)
- ... which explored her transition to the role. In 2010 the college opened the bell hooks Institute in her honor, which currently holds her personal collections of artifacts, African-American art, and copies ...
- Created on 15 December 2021
- 10. South African Soul-Rocker Tuelo Honors her Mother in Video for “Saint Margaret”
- (Music)
- ... her voice to create soulful art-rock, inspired by the traditions of South African protest music and the polyrhythms and tonalities of her native Tswana and Khoikhoi tribes. The song was originally released ...
- Created on 27 October 2021
- 11. You’re Invited: Celebrate "Project Runway's" Nina Garcia & Help Women Rise Against Violence at Womankind’s Virtual Gal
- (Sponsored)
- ... health. In 1994, the Women of African Descent for Reproductive Justice created the term "Reproductive Justice", because the movement at the time did not include an intersectional analysis that considered ...
- Created on 14 October 2021
- 12. Say Their Name: "My Name is Pauli Murray" Directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen, Talk About the Amazing Life of the Civil Rights Activist, Lawyer, and Gender-Bending Episcopal Priest, and Their Impact on ...
- (Feminism)
- ... of African-American writer and civil-rights activist Pauli Murray. Born in 1910, the Baltimore Maryland native struggled with her sexuality and gender identity their whole life. A graduate of Howard University ...
- Created on 13 September 2021
- 13. How Sarah Baartman’s hips went from a symbol of exploitation to a source of empowerment for Black women
- (Feminism)
- ... hips Gotta hop into my jeans like I hop into my whip, yeah The celebration of Sarah Baartman’s features marks a departure from her historical image. Saartjie “Sarah” Baartman was an African woman ...
- Created on 20 August 2021
- 14. I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E: Zaila Avant-garde Is the First African-American to Win the Spelling Bee--And She's Also A Basketball Prodigy ...
- (Entertainment)
- Zaila Avant-garde became the first African American winner of the Scripp’s National Spelling Bee on Thursday, and is quickly becoming America’s favorite (and most interesting) 14-year-old. After unsuccessfully ...
- Created on 12 July 2021
- 15. Monique DeBose Celebrates "Brown Beauty" In Her Newest Music Video: BUST Intervie
- (Music)
- ... of musical about my experiences growing up as a mixed-race woman; my mom is Irish-American and my dad is African-American. I wrote a body of work and then decided I didn’t want to do that. I then wrote ...
- Created on 25 June 2021
- 16. Happy Birthday, Octavia Butler! 4 Powerful Life Lessons From the Renowned Science Fiction And Afrofuturistic Feminist Writer
- (Living)
- ... as an African-American woman marked by a particular history"—which she later termed as "writing myself in,” according to The New York Times. Butler’s stories, therefore, were typically written from the ...
- Created on 22 June 2021
- 17. Kara Walker Helped Define An Entire Generation Of Black Creators—Now, Her Artwork Is On Full Display For The First Time
- (Arts)
- ... she found in the silhouette. The silhouette cutout has a bourgeois, feminine tradition and was also practiced in the United States in the 19th century by African Americans. It was considered a handicraft, ...
- Created on 26 May 2021
- 18. Another Black Trans Woman Was Murdered. Here Are 10 Black Trans-Led Organizations To Support Right Now.
- (Feminism)
- ... 2. Black Trans Women, Inc. - BTWI is a national nonprofit organization that works to address the concerns facing African American ...
- Created on 15 April 2021
- 19. Jennifer Mack-Watkins's Newest Exhibit is An Ode to the Beauty of Black Yout
- (Arts)
- ... around an African-American schoolgirl who was told to "recite a white-written poem while holding a caricatured Black doll…," and thus decided to use doll-imagery as the basis for her central theme. Such ...
- Created on 08 April 2021
- 20. Morgan Jerkins' Debut Novel, "Caul Baby," Is A Healing Work of Black Family Folklor
- (Books)
- Morgan Jerkins’ Caul Baby is an expansive, folklorish tale of two families—both headed by Black matriarchs—that intertwine for over 20 years. The Melancons are born with a “caul”—a special extra layer ...
- Created on 06 April 2021
