NEW YORK (AP) — :It’s an all-American final at the U.S. Open. Madison Keys dominated CoCo Vandeweghe 6-1, 6-2 to reach her first Grand Slam final. The No. 15 seed will face unseeded Sloane Stephens on Saturday in the first U.S. Open final between American players since Serena Williams beat Venus Williams in 2002. Keys […]
NEW YORK (AP) — :It’s an all-American final at the U.S. Open. Madison Keys dominated CoCo Vandeweghe 6-1, 6-2 to reach her first Grand Slam final. The No. 15 seed will face unseeded Sloane Stephens on Saturday in the first U.S. Open final between American players since Serena Williams beat Venus Williams in 2002. Keys […]
What was supposed to be a much-needed girls trip has turned into a nightmare for a group of Black women vacationing in the Caribbean.
Stephanie Ready has achieved a handful of historic marks and her trailblazer status in basketball broke down what many thought would be an impenetrable barrier. The Coppin State University graduate is the first woman to coach a professional men’s basketball team and is also the first full-time female NBA analyst. Ready, a native of Takoma […]
Sloane Stephens reached her first Grand Slam semifinal since 2013 by beating 16th-seeded Anastasija Sevastova 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (4) at the U.S. Open. The 83rd-ranked Stephens has won 13 of her past 15 matches. She was one of four American women in the quarterfinals at Flushing Meadows, the most since five made it that […]
Uh oh. Are the suits over at NBC freaking out cause they are worried that after dumping popular host Tamron Hall for Megyn Kelly that Kelly’s upcoming morning replacement show won’t appeal to younger people and non-whites? Yep, that’s the fear and the predicament the network finds itself in after Hall’s departure. According to the Daily Beast, the network is freaking out […]
Uh oh. Are the suits over at NBC freaking out cause they are worried that after dumping popular host Tamron Hall for Megyn Kelly that Kelly’s upcoming morning replacement show won’t appeal to younger people and non-whites? Yep, that’s the fear and the predicament the network finds itself in after Hall’s departure. According to the Daily Beast, the network is freaking out […]
Cora Mae Brown was a notable social worker and politician who made history as the first Black woman elected to the Michigan State Senate. The Fisk University graduate went on to become general counsel with the U.S. Post Office after her political career ended. Brown was born April 19, 1914 in Alabama but was raised […]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — “Deadpool 2” star Ryan Reynolds is mourning the death of a motorcycle stunt driver killed during production Monday. Reynolds released a statement on Twitter a few hours after the accident near the waterfront in downtown Vancouver. “Today, we tragically lost a member of our crew while filming Deadpool,” the actor […]
Black women make 63 cents for every dollar a white man earns, according to research from the National Women’s Law Center. It’s a statistic that has moved mom-to-be Serena Williams to action. The tennis star has penned an essay about black women and the pay gap for Fortune magazine in order to “acknowledge the many […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A social media campaign to derail HBO’s planned modern-day Southern slavery drama quickly caught fire, prompting the cable channel to ask detractors to withhold judgment until they see “Confederate.” The campaign, with “OscarsSoWhite” activist April Reign among its organizers, asked people to tweet to HBO with the hashtag “NoConfederate” during Sunday’s […]
Last week, two women of Spelman College died in two separate car accidents. Senior Erica Lanier, of Stone Mountain, Ga, died after a car accident Wednesday. Alexis Sims, a graduate of Spelman, was driving when she crashed her car, killing Lanier. According to 11 Alive WXIA, Sims was charged with vehicular homicide, and DUI. Reports […]
