A Thousand and One‘s heroine Inez is not the young, Black woman Hollywood favors. She’s not super gangster, a gold digger, drugged out, promiscuous, or an absentee mother. Instead, she’s determined to “go to war” for her kid, doing whatever…
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Hall of Famer Lisa Leslie Discusses The Importance Of Black Women Leading In Sports
Hall of Famer Lisa Leslie is one of the greatest basketball players ever. She began her illustrious professional career at Morningside High School in Inglewood, California, where she scored a record 101 points in a single game. As a collegiate…
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Female Bosses: A Q&A with ASCAP Executive Nicole George-Middleton
HERstory is not just for the month of March, but all year. We must continue to uplift and amplify Black women’s stories as they climb corporate ladders and set historical records and trends. ASCAP’s Senior Vice President of Membership, and Executive…
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‘A Thousand and One’ Filmmaker A.V. Rockwell on Celebrating Black Women, Tackling Gentrification, and Casting Teyana Taylor as Her Leading Lady
“I just wanted to honor us, honor the Black women in my life,” A Thousand and One writer/director A.V. Rockwell shares. And that energy is evident in every frame of her debut feature film about Inez, a young mother in 1990s, early…
Read MoreChef Nina Compton Brings Complex Caribbean Flavors to New Orleans’ Creole Flare
“When I think of the Caribbean, I think of vibrant flavors and bold colors like: turquoise, yellow, green, blue, red. And all of that is in our food,” Chef Nina Compton recalls of her home island of St. Lucia. “When…
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6 Dope Podcasts by Black Women That Deserve Your Attention
When it comes to podcasts by Black women, they are killing the game right now. Through unique takes and careful attention to detail, they have established a blueprint that many are following and continue to push the needle about what…
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Keke Palmer Shows Off Her ‘Big Boss’ Energy in New Amazon Music Short Film
For many of us, we’ve watched Keke Palmer blossom from a talented child star into a powerhouse who is a force to be reckoned with. Always one to watch, she keeps her finger on the pulse and uses this intuition…
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B. Stuyvesant Champagne Founder Marvina Robinson on Breaking Into the Bubbly Industry as a Black Woman
Black women continue to disrupt the status quo and make HERstory, in every industry. For Brooklyn native and HBCU grad Marvina Robinson, she chose to do so within the champagne industry. As the owner of B. Stuyvesant Champagne, she becomes…
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Pulitzer Prize Winner Lynn Nottage on the State of Theater For Black Female Playwrights
Since Lorraine Hansberry‘s A Raisin in the Sun opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1959, becoming one of the first plays by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway, only a handful of Black female playwrights have…
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