On October 27, Tiffany Martinez, an aspiring professor posted “Academia, Love Me Back,” to her blog, as a response to the wave of emotions she felt when a professor circled “hence” on her paper and wrote “this is not your word....
Caribbean 360 is reporting Bahamanian voters voted against a Constitutional amendment, which would have updated Article 26 and made it unconstitutional for Parliament to pass any laws that discriminate based on gender. Three othe...
Patrick Clarke of ABC News is reporting Paulette Leaphart, 49, is going to Washington, D.C. and she will make the entire 1,000-mile journey on foot. Clarke writes: “She will walk from Biloxi, Mississippi, tomorrow completely...
Jeremy C. Fox of the Boston Globe is reporting Wellesley College has named Dr. Paula A. Johnson as the 14th president, making her the first African-American chosen for the coveted post. Johnson, who is a Harvard Medical School Pro...
Erika Hardison of the Huffington Post is reporting Ariell R. Johnson has opened what may be the first black woman-owned comic book store in the country. The Temple University alum opened Amalglam Comics and Coffehouse after realiz...
Ross Kelly of CBS Sports is reporting members of a girls basketball team have been booted after making complaints against their coach who they said was too “touchy feely.” Kelly writes: “Seven girls from a high s...
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. You would have to be living under a rock to not be touched by someone fighting, suffering, surviving or succumbing to breast cancer. Breastcancer.org reports 1 in 8 U.S. women (ab...
Madeleine Davies of Jezebel.com is reporting Charnesia Corley, a 21-year-old black woman from Houston, Texas, was pulled over by a police officer in June and vaginally searched because the officer claimed he smelled marijuana in h...
This weekend, Kia Sidbury, known as “Prime Time,” will compete in the New York State 9-ball Championship. She is the only featured African American woman pool player in the Women’s Professional Billiards Association (WPBA s...
Writing for The Root, the Burton Wire‘s founder & editor-in-chief Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D., interviews Jada Pinkett-Smith about the process of making Magic Mike XXL. Anti-sex trafficking advocate, Pinkett-Smith explains t...
