black women
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NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Says Police Will No Longer Enforce Mask-Wearing Order
Surely there is a reasonable medium between brutalizing black people for not properly adhering to COVID-19 related measures and courteously handing out masks to white people who are decidedly not observing social distancing rules? The NYPD hasn’t seemed to find that medium yet, but New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is now suggesting that…
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Cleveland’s Only Black Female Firefighter Retires After 30 Years
After a 30-year career, Cleveland’s only black woman firefighter has retired. Channel 19 News reports that Daphne Tyus retired from the Cleveland Fire Department on Friday. Tyus was one of only three women in the department and, as the only black woman, she says it was a long and difficult road. “When I got that…
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During COVID-19, Black Women Are Still Dying From Not Being Taken Seriously
About a year ago I made up my mind to never give birth to a child in the United States. The decision came after I stumbled into an urgent care clinic in the Chicago neighborhood I lived in, after hours of lying on the couch in my apartment feeling weak and severely dehydrated yet unable…
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Rapsody's EVE Has Inspired Courses at Two Universities
Rapsody’s EVE is considered by some people to be the best hip-hop album of 2019 bar none (it’s me…I’m “some people”) and now, it has inspired courses at two universities. Doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tyler Bunzey announced via Instagram on Tuesday that the NC rapper’s third studio album,…
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He Terrorized Poor Black Women for Decades. Now, California's 'Grim Sleeper' Is Dead
Lonnie Franklin Jr., the convicted serial killer nicknamed “The Grim Sleeper,” was found dead in his cell this weekend in California’s San Quentin Prison. The 67-year-old, who is believed to have killed at least 10 women over the span of 30 years, was found unresponsive in his cell on Saturday night, reports CNN. According to…
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Thanks to Trump, Lupus Sufferers Are Now Struggling to Get a Crucial Drug
The last time I checked, no one elected a medical doctor—or even a pharmacist—to the presidency in 2016 (or a rational human being, for that matter). But that hasn’t stopped many people from following Trump’s dubious medical advice in the wake of the coronavirus. As the world desperately seeks a method to contain or prevent…
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A Seat at the Bar Table: Meet Two Black Women Who Are Taking on the Male-Dominated Craft Beer Industry
When you think of the craft brewing industry or even beer consumption in general, you might picture a white man with a beard and a curly mustache. But check the facts, beer bros: Women actually invented beer. Despite that, women are heavily underrepresented in the brewing industry. It’s estimated that African-Americans as a whole represent…
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Did the New Yorker Recently Feature Its First Black Female Cartoonist? (No, but She's Still a Big Deal)
Amid the global panic a global pandemic can inspire, it might be easy to forget that it’s still Women’s History Month—and the start of spring, but that’s likely cold comfort if you’re afraid to go outside. As we’ve tried to bright-side this socially isolating situation, we’ve increasingly been looking inward—literally. What joy can we find…
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Black Lives Matter Founders Grace Cover of Time 100 Women of The Year Issue
Today is International Women’s Day and to commemorate the occasion, TIME magazine has released a special double issue featuring 100 covers of women who defined a century, choosing one woman per year from 1920 through 2019. The founders of the Black Lives Matter movement are on the list, which include political heavyweights, celebrity notables, dignitaries…
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Common Believes That Black Women Are a Gift
It’s both Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, which means it’s a perfect time to remind you all that the world would be lost without black women. Black women are the gift this world does not deserve and rapper/actor Common agrees with that fact. Common says black women are the “givers and creators of…