By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist By the time you read this, perhaps the disturbing story of Rachel Dolezal, the prevaricating White woman who passed for...
James McIntosh, MEDICAL NEWS TODAY (Medical News Today) — The study, published in Psychology of Women Quarterly, also found that infertility impaired many of the...
By Lynette Holloway Special to the NNPA via The Chicago Defender Black women and girls matter too. Don’t forget. #sayhername #BlackWomenMatter #blackwomenslivesmatter pic.twitter.com/SoQde3dshr — satan with...
By Chris Bennett Special to the NNPA from The Seattle Medium Three days after being diagnosed with breast cancer on her 35th birthday Bridgette...
By Christina Coleman Special to the NNPA via The Chicago Defender (NNPA) — The conversation surrounding police brutality in Black communities often excludes women...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist You know their names – Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice – because these African American men were unarmed and...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Black women working full time earned just 64 cents for every dollar White men made in...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Black women are the only group that has not recovered the jobs they lost in the recession....
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Hundreds of Black women and girls representing the Black Women’s Roundtable descended on the nation’s capital...
By Elaina Johnson Special to the NNPA from Howard University News Service WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Sarah Finney, 57, said she gets hot flashes throughout her body...
Nekesa Mumbi Moody, ASSOCIATED PRESS BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The annual Essence Black Women in Hollywood Award is a guarantee of big stars and...
Sandy Cohen, ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three black women released movies in 2014, more than ever before in a single year. And one...
George E. Curry NNPA Columnist WASHINGTON (NNPA) –Black girls are disproportionately suffering from punitive school disciplinary policies and actions yet society fails to take note of...
(The Huffington Post) – “You think you’re white.” “You’re stuck up.” “You think you’re better than everybody else.” African-American women with lighter complexions say they...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Feminists claim that women should take more control of their lives, arguing that women are capable of making decisions about...
Karen Brigsby Bates, NPR (NPR.com)—Cosmetics giant L’Oréal purchased Carol’s Daughter, a beauty company that sells natural hair and skin products for black women, earlier this week....
Tom Coyne and Michael Tarm, ASSOCIATED PRESS GARY, Ind. (AP) — Police investigating the slayings of seven northwestern Indiana women whose bodies were found over the weekend...
By Dr. Elaine Batchlor CEO, The New Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital Special to the NNPA from Our Weekly Every October, people lace up their sneakers...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – While Black girls posses high levels of leadership qualities, they receive the least opportunity to fill...
Arienne Thompson, USA TODAY (USA Today)—Like any good scandal, this is the part where the offending party apologizes — profusely. Cue The New York Times‘ mea...
José Patiño Girona, THE TAMPA TRIBUNE TAMPA, Fla. (The Tampa Tribune) — The last time Jerlean Moore talked to her daughter on the phone, she sang...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – From the rubble of the Great Recession, women business owners are emerging victorious with record growth and...
By Oscar Blayton Special to the NNPA PERSPECTIVE Beginning in 1945, as a Black male child, I spent my early years in a small southern...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Instead of breaking the glass ceiling, Black women have increasingly started making their own. According to the...
By Luke Charles Harris Special to the NNPA News Service I’ve been told I should be the first among many to celebrate President Obama’s My...
