Feb 19, 2024 | Entrepreneurship, Women
Black women make up less than 10% of the U.S. population, but they’ve emerged as the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs, new research from GoDaddy has found. The number of Black women-owned businesses in the U.S. was trending upward even before the...
Feb 12, 2024 | Literature, Women
From Toni Morrison to Zora Neale Hurston, Black female authors have completely defined contemporary American literature as we know it, unapologetically shaping and reshaping the minds and hearts of the American people over the last hundred years with their influential...
Jan 22, 2024 | History, Music, Women
On 15 June 1933 the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed a brand new piece by an unknown composer. The work had won first prize in a competition and the music critic of the Chicago Daily News declared it “a faultless work, a work that speaks its own message...
Jan 22, 2024 | Entertainment, Film, Women
Pam Grier, the pioneering action hero who starred in such Blaxploitation classics as Roger Corman’s The Big Doll House, The Big Bird Cage and Friday Foster, is set to receive a career achievement award at the upcoming Toronto Black Film...
Jan 22, 2024 | Education, Women
Last year, the U.S. Department of Education reported that Black educators make up approximately 9 percent of the teacher workforce, of which a majority are Black women. A group that is often studied but left out of conversations, we wanted to intentionally...
Jan 8, 2024 | Leadership, Women
The 47th stamp in the Black Heritage series honors Constance Baker Motley (1921-2005), civil rights pioneer and the first African American woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court and the first to serve as a federal judge. The dedication ceremony for this...
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