black women
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Black Women Are More Likely to Be Sexually Harassed on the Job, a Study Finds
Reports of sexual harassment in the workplace are down among women overall, but the decline is far less steep among black women, signaling they are at greater risk. That’s according to a study published in the journal Gender, Work and Organization and written by New Jersey researchers Dan Cassino of Fairleigh Dickinson University and Yasemin…
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More Than an Awards Show: BET Just Gave Us Another Unforgettable, Female-Fueled 'Experience'
Fun fact: When Rihanna gives you a standing ovation in the middle of your flute solo, your DNA test is probably right: you’re 100 percent “that bitch.” Frankly, we didn’t expect Lizzo to top the stellar Sister Act 2 tribute she gave only a week ago at the MTV TV and Movie Awards, but clearly,…
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Mary Winston Becomes the Next Lone Black Woman to Lead a Fortune 500 Company
Mary Winston has earned every right to be celebrated as Bed, Bath & Beyond’s new interim CEO; but we’ve also got to talk about a few things. When Ursula Burns, the first black woman to run a Fortune 500 company, stepped down as CEO of Xerox as of January 2017 after the company was split…
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Kamala Harris Reintroduces Bill Addressing the Black Maternal Healthcare Crisis
U.S. Senator Kamala Harris reintroduced the Maternal Care Access and Reducing Emergencies (Maternal CARE) Act on Wednesday, her 2018 bill that seeks to address the ongoing black maternal health crisis. “Black mothers across the country are facing a health crisis that is driven in part by implicit bias in our health care system. We must…
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Watch: Black Fairy Tale Becomes Reality in Short Film, Thistles and Thorns
Imagine if the world remembered the magic, power and purpose of black women. In a mere 12-minute film, Thistles and Thorns (A Fairytale for Black Girls) brings that wonderment of the African Diaspora to the screen for our enjoyment and upliftment, Shadow and Act reports. Directed by Kalie Acheson and written by David Vieux and…
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Stepping in IT (Information Technology)
At the beginning of this year, I saw a meme on Facebook where a young man mentioned that over the past year, he had learned to stop “aspiring to sit at tables where he had to bring his own chair, squeeze in between folks and repeatedly convince people that he deserved to be there.” That…
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Bernie Sanders Has a Black Woman Problem, and That's Going to Prove Impossible to Get Beyond
I left something at my mother’s house. And the girl I was with needed to pee. That’s how it started. I forget what it was now, but it must’ve been something important because I drove there to get it in the middle of the night with her in the car. I was in college then,…
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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…