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...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – March 1 was the last time eight year-old Relisha Rudd was seen, leaving a local hotel...
By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Despite the stubborn persistence of racial disparities in health, there is cause for Black women to celebrate. “Overall,...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The gaping underrepresentation of women of color on the political stage deeply undermines the American ideal of...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist In the latest urban movies, “Best Man Holiday” and “A Madea’s Christmas,” I thought it was interesting that each featured...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Black women are murdered by men, often their present or past husbands or lovers, at a rate...
[NBC NEWS HEALTH] Life expectancy for women at 50 has improved but the gap between poor and rich countries is growing and could worsen without better...
[VACCINE NEWS DAILY] Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine released a study on August 27 that showed African-American women are less likely...
[REUTERS] A program including self-monitoring, gym access and occasional counseling calls helped black women maintain their weight in a new study. Black women who are overweight...
[ROLLING OUT] Imagine finally meeting your birth mother and asking the question that every adopted child asks — after “Why did you give me up?” —...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist In the midst of the Academy Awards drama on Sunday, February 24, one of the Onion’s writers (we don’t know...
