Apr 22, 2024 | Entertainment, Television, Women
Olivia Charmaine Bernardez doesn’t have your typical media career. A little over 10 years after she graduated from the Tisch School of Arts at NYU, Bernardez has worked everywhere from the top companies in media to the non-profit sector while also founding her...
Apr 22, 2024 | Cannabis, Women
According to a Marijuana Business Daily study done in 2017, 81% of all cannabis business owners were white. This percentage starkly contrasted the 4.3 percent of Black entrepreneurs in the industry. Considering the number of Black people who have been killed and...
Apr 15, 2024 | Entrepreneurship, Women
A dozen years ago, Janice Malone, at the time a franchisee in Mobile, Ala., looked around a group of fellow business owners and saw “no one who looked like me,” she says. Minority-owned businesses weren’t having the success that they deserved, Malone says. She vowed...
Apr 8, 2024 | Leadership, Women
Last spring, a group of Black women activists released a report on the escalation of physical, digital and psychological violence against women of color working toward social justice. Their stories speak to a strategy of intimidation being used to silence...
Mar 25, 2024 | Leadership, Women
“It is my undying belief that Black women are the tide that raises all ships,” says Andrea Thornton Bolden, a showrunner and executive producer. “It’s not a strange sight at all to see Black women in the forefront of many movements, because those are the spaces where...
Mar 18, 2024 | Film, Women
Black Women Film Network (BWFN) announced its 2024 honorees as the organization gears up to celebrate its ninth annual BWFN Summit on March 23, 2024, in Atlanta. The organization will celebrate its Class of 2024 during the Summit Awards Luncheon and announce...
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