Congresswoman Barbara Lee’s political journey began with a pivotal encounter with Shirley Chisholm—the first Black woman in Congress and the first Black woman to seek a major party’s presidential ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I tell stories about creating environments that empower everyone. A recently published MSNBC article made headlines for a shocking ...
Black women have long been at the forefront of setting beauty trends and redefining beauty standards. Despite often being excluded from mainstream beauty narratives, Black women have spent and ...
As the American economy moves through choppy global waters of its own making, new data suggests that the country's precarious financial markets have already begun leaving one crucial demographic ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Bias against Black women in the workplace has unfortunately ...
When a female colleague mentioned she was raising her therapy rates because a white male counterpart—with less experience—had higher rates, I was astonished. She shared the figure, and it was ...
When Raniyah Copeland abruptly left the Black AIDS Institute in 2021, the storied organization appointed trans woman and ...
Ashley Estelle is from Birmingham, Ala., and is a junior at the University of Notre Dame. She is a part of The Write to Vote Project, which helps students publish op-eds related to voting rights and ...
Where can Black women feel supported and flourish financially? When posed that question, Dr. Lori Martin, a professor of African and African American studies and sociology at Louisiana State ...
Between the soaring cost of living, shifty changes in our healthcare system, and an ominous Trump presidency in our wake, there’s so much uncertainty on the horizon. The 2024 election was a ...
SB 404 would establish a 17-member task force to examine the issue of missing and murdered Black women and girls and produce ...
At the beginning of 2025, Arkansas had fewer than 50 trained doulas, or trained birth coaches, across the state, according to ...