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1. Lizzo Plays a 200-Year-Old Flute...And Racists Freak Out: (Music); ... represents. Lizzo, a Black female superstar, collaborating with Carla Hayden, the first African American and first woman Librarian of Congress, to use a flute from James Madison, the Founding Father ...; Created on 30 September 2022
2. 14 Inspiring Celebrities Who Came Out Later in Life, On Their Own Terms: (Sex); ... interview with Vanity Fair in 2018 when she told the magazine that she “kind of goes both ways.” She is now engaged to South African actress Jodi Balfour. 5. Maybelle Blair Maybelle Blair, one of the ...; Created on 14 September 2022
3. The Shi*ty Craft Club Is A Safe Space For The DIY-Challenged, Plus 4 Items We're Obsessing Over This Fall ...: (DIY); ... hands that demonstrate crocheting are brown hands, and the patterns reflect the wide variety of shades of brown skin and shapes of African-American hair—including Afro puffs. –Debbie Stoller Cool ...; Created on 15 August 2022
4. Fans Criticized Beyoncé and Lizzo For Using the Same Slur in Their New Songs So They Changed the Offensive Lyrics: (Music); ... ass, spaz on that ass.” Following this controversy, Beyoncé announced that she would remove the word from the song. According to Insider, “In African American Vernacular English, a dialect of English created ...; Created on 09 August 2022
5. These 9 Women of Color Are Passionate About Teaching Women How To Level Up Financially: (Feminism); ... Activist (@thebrokeblackgirl) Having amassed nearly 200k followers on Instagram, financial activist Dasha Kennedy uses her space to document her financial journey as an African-American woman ...; Created on 05 July 2022
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 6 Things You Might Not Know About Supreme Court Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson: (Feminism); ... her commission in June of 2021 to the U.S. Court of Appeals in DC. Judge Brown-Jakcson is not only the first African-American woman to hold the position, but only the 6th woman in history to serve on the ...; Created on 25 February 2022
11. 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
12. 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
13. "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
14. 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
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18. 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
19. 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
20. 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

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