Category: African American Commuities

  —  Dana Givens, BLACK ENTERPRISE Tia McWilliams didn’t see many women in law enforcement roles growing in her rural Georgiacommunity. Despite the odds, that didn’t stop her from pursuing the path. This week, she made history in her town alongside a huge career milestone. McWilliams became the first Black woman to become a sheriff in Taliaferro county, serving […]

  —  Suzy Weiss, New York Post Call her Tailor Swift. Makayla Wray, 29, an East Village tailor, works in Chinatown for an upscale designer during the day. But Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 5:30 p.m. until dark, she’s a street seamstress working out of an old cart stationed at the corner of East Houston […]

Ruby Clay tries to be the resource she needed when she was young.   —  Maggie Ginsberg, Madison Magazine Ruby Clay tries to be the resource she needed when she was young: that voice whispering in a Black girl’s ear that she is enough, that she is valued, that she is destined for great things. […]

— Michael Harriot, The Root For years, the investigative team at The Root has feverishly sought an answer to the age-old question: “Do white people have cousins?” While our project is still undergoing the rigorous peer review process, our researchers can say, with a modicum of confidence, that white people indeed have aunts. We unearthed evidence that Aunt […]

— Angela Russell, Madison 365 Centering Blackness is the theme of the 2020 YWCA Madison Racial Justice Summit. In this episode of Black Oxygen, Vanessa McDowell, CEO of the YWCA of Madison, describes what it means to center Blackness, discusses intersectionality, and what gives her hope. Known as DJ Ace to many in the community, […]

By U.S. Marshals Office of Public Affairs, U.S. Marshalls Service Washington, DC – The U.S. Marshals Service Missing Child Unit, in conjunction with the agency’s Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and Georgia state and local agencies, led a two-week operation in August in Atlanta and Macon, Georgia, […]

By CBS News The oldest living American, Hester Ford, celebrated her birthday Saturday, turning either 115 or 116, CBS Charlotte, North Carolina affiliate WBTV reports. Either way, as of July 30, she was the oldest person on record living in the U.S., according to data compiled by the Gerontology Research Group.    According to her family, U.S. Census […]

Watch the doc about the troop, who earn badges for Black Lives Matter, radical pride, disabillity justice, and more By Malaya Nordyke, Salon In 2015, a group of young girls wearing matching brown berets and uniforms, decorated with colorful badges, arrived at a Black Lives Matter protest in Oakland, CA. The group, aged from 8 to 10 […]

By Dana Givens, Black Enterprise The Girls Scouts of the USA made a historic announcement for the organization with the appointment of Judith Batty as the company’s interim CEO. This makes Batty the organization’s first Black CEO. Batty has been a part of the famous leadership program for young women for nearly 30 years, also working as […]

By Brandon and Everlean Rutherford, BLACKLOVEcom We’ve always discussed the possibility of fostering since the beginning of our marriage. After our careers allowed us to transition to Atlanta, we knew it was the perfect time to move forward with our initial plan. However, we didn’t quite know what to expect with the process, and it […]