August 10, 2017August 10, 2017 America Has a Human Trafficking Problem and Homeless Youths Are the Most Vulnerable | Atlanta Black Star Portraits of 22 different women lined the walls of Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in June. The temporary photography installation featured a diverse group of women, holding onto a symbol of who they are and who they aspire to be. African American Women, Human Trafficking, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine, Violence Against Women
August 2, 2017August 2, 2017 More Black Women Are Killed In U.S. Than Any Other Race, Says CDC | Black America Web New report found that more than half of those homicides are due to domestic violence. African American Lives, African American Women, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine, Violence Against Women
July 27, 2017July 27, 2017 Michelle Obama Says Racist Attacks She Faced as First Lady ‘Cut the Deepest’ | The Root Former first lady Michelle Obama was a breath of fresh air Tuesday at a live armchair conversation with the Women’s Foundation of Colorado President Lauren Casteel in Denver. Poised and graceful as always, Obama still touched on some tough topics and spoke out frankly about the hurt she felt from the racist attacks she received while in the White House. African American Families, African American History, African American Politics, African American Women, Black History, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
July 26, 2017August 17, 2017 The first woman to start a bank — a black woman — finally gets her due in the Confederacy’s capital | The Washington Post Maggie L. Walker started a newspaper. She was the first country’s first woman to found a bank. She was a humanitarian, a teacher, an icon of her community in 1920s Richmond. African American Economics, African American History, African American Women, Black History, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
July 26, 2017July 26, 2017 Jessica Williams Says Learning About ‘Womanism’ Helped Her Embrace the Beauty of Her Blackness | Atlanta Black Star Comedian Jessica Williams may seem like the epitome of confidence, but she says she has struggled with her appearance throughout her life. African American Art, African American Cinema, African American Women, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
July 21, 2017 Tesla Adds Publisher Linda Johnson Rice To Board, Taking Step Toward Diversity | Forbes Tesla has taken a step toward greater by naming Linda Johnson Rice, an African American executive who leads the Johnson Publishing Company, to serve as an independent director on its board, along with James Murdoch, CEO of 21st Century Fox. The move comes after a year of criticism by some shareholders that Tesla’s board was too insular. African American Women, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
July 18, 2017 Karyn Parsons Is Telling The Stories Of Little-Known Black Icons – HuffPost Hilary Banks is now a history buff, y’all. African American Entertainment, African American Entrepreneurs, African American Film, African American News, African American Women, Entertainment, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine, Non Profit
June 8, 2017 Black Women in America Really Do Work Harder for Less, New Report Shows – Slate It’s a familiar adage that black Americans have to work twice as hard to get half as far as their white counterparts—and that black women, oppressed by the intersecting forces of sexism and racism, have to struggle even more. African American Economics, African American Education, African American Women, Black Lives Matter, BLM, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
April 25, 2017April 25, 2017 States Are Attempting to Modify Their Definitions of Rape and Sex: The Week In Women’s Rights – Slate Earlier this month, Maryland seemed poised to finally pass a law, as most states have, that would keep men from claiming parental rights to the babies of the women they raped. African American News, African American Women, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine, Violence Against Women
February 19, 2017February 20, 2017 See the Story Behind Danai Gurira’s ‘Eclipsed’ Play In This New Documentary – Okay Africa You can now see the story behind the Broadway play that made history as the first to feature an all-black, all-women cast and creative team in this new documentary. African American Art, African American Cinema, African American Entertainment, African American News, African American Women, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
