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Redefining the Role: LaTanya Richardson Jackson Finds a Well-Deserved Spotlight in Broadway's To Kill a Mockingbird
Many know her as one-half of one of Hollywood’s most enduring marriages, but LaTanya Richardson Jackson (wife of Samuel L. Jackson), is an acting powerhouse in her own right. Just ask the audiences currently experiencing her talent nightly in Broadway’s acclaimed production of To Kill a Mockingbird. Scripted by award-winning writer, producer and director Aaron…
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Black-Owned Bank OneUnited Offers the Blackest Royalty Bank Card Money Can Buy
Just when you thought it couldn’t get no blacker … BLAOW! Turns out that royalty is in more than our DNA; it’s in our ATMs, too. OneUnited, the nation’s largest black-owned bank, recently announced its latest Royalty campaign to celebrate the power of melanated money. An official OneUnited statement on the Queen card reads: [F]rom…
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Privacy, Please: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Opt for a Non-Traditional Birth Announcement and Oprah Defends the Duchess
When the Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcome their first child later this month, don’t expect the traditional photo-op on the hospital steps of St. Mary’s, where Kate Middleton gave birth to all three of her children in the hospital’s private Lindo Wing. In fact, People reports that in yet another break with royal tradition,…
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‘Save Yourself’: Oprah Joins Stacey Abrams, Mae Jemison and More at the 10th Annual Women in the World Summit
“We women people, we are used to saving other folk; we’ve been doing it a very long time,” said Oprah Winfrey, keynote speaker of the 2019 Women in the World Summit on Wednesday night. “And we need to first and foremost honor the sacred time of saving ourselves because that is where our greatest power…
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Mommy & Me: Serena Williams and Olympia Ohanian Are the Pick-Me-Up We Need Today
True confession time: Sometimes, when we’re having a particularly terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day, we’ll skim the Instagram feeds of some of our favorite famous families for a pick-me-up—and Serena Williams and daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian never disappoint. Everyone recognizes Serena as a fierce competitor and savvy entrepreneur, but her evolution into devoted…
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Adidas, But Make It Childish: Did Donald Glover Debut the Design of His 1st Sneaker Collab in September?
In the sneakerhead universe, there are few things more exciting than a highly anticipated drop. So when it was announced last September that Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino) would be joining the Adidas family, fans of both the entertainer and athletic brand were eager to see what would develop. As it turns out, it’s likely…
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Black Maternal Health: When the Village Itself May Be Too Toxic
The recent intense media focus on high rates of maternal mortality in the U.S.—especially for African-American women—has been a mixed blessing. It has raised much-needed awareness about the rising rates of maternal deaths and disability happening during pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Yet those startling statistics have added more stress and burden on women who absorb…
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#SheMatters: Chicago’s Black Women’s Expo Celebrates 25 Years of Black Girl Magic
“When people talk about black girl magic, we got it going on here in the city of Chicago,” says Merry Green, creator and founder of the city’s Black Women’s Expo, which celebrates its 25th anniversary April 12 through April 14 at the McCormick Place convention center, with BET Her as its title sponsor and the…
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With ‘Shades of Black,’ The Guardian Enters the Colorism Conversation
We talk about it. We joke about it. We resent it. We reinforce it. We rage about it. Anyone who has lived this life as a black person—and especially, a black woman—knows all too well the loaded conversation that is colorism. It’s a worldwide epidemic, and not one unique to black people, but the ways…
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Finding My Voice: With Her New Memoir, Valerie Jarrett Shares the Wisdom of Life's Many Chapters
On a sunny Saturday morning in one of Chicago’s trendiest neighborhoods (Fulton Market in the West Loop), passersby may have assumed the long line of mostly millennial-aged women winding out of one of the area’s newly refurbished warehouses were awaiting entrance to the latest brunch destination—or perhaps a sample sale at an exclusive boutique. But…