Last week two intelligent 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. […]
A Beta Alpha chapter of Delta Sigma Theta reunion offered an opportunity for empowerment and Affirmation.
New report found that more than half of those homicides are due to domestic violence.
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Sitting in a classroom above a gun range, a woman hesitantly says she isn’t sure she could ever shoot and kill someone, even to protect herself. Couldn’t she just aim for their leg and try to maim them? Her instructor says self-defense is not about killing someone, but is instead about […]
Alice Allison Dunnigan blazed trials for future White House Correspondents like April D. Ryan when she became the first Black woman named in that role in 1948. Dunnigan is also the first Black woman reporter to gain credentials to the press galleries of the U.S. Congress, and also the first Black woman to be elected […]
Tamron Hall is bouncing back with her very own talk show for daytime TV. Less than six months after leaving NBC and MSNC, Tamron is leveling up. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the news anchor is teaming up with The Weinstein Company for her very own talk show. Tamron will cover everything from current events […]
The Oscar winner believes that the former Black Panther and scholar's life is fascinating and deserves to be on the big screen.
June and Jennifer Gibbons were twins born to Barbadian immigrants and raised in Wales in the United Kingdom. Known infamously as the “Silent Twins,” the Gibbons sisters spoke only to one another and sometimes their younger sister in a rapid-fire style of language only they understood. The twins were born on April 11, 1963 and […]
Gerri Major was a true Renaissance Woman, holding many important duties over the course of her long life. Major was a writer, publicist, and journalist that found fame in Harlem and crafted a journalism career that spanned decades. Born Geraldyn Hodges on July 29, 1894 in Chicago, the University of Chicago graduate had dreams of […]
Halle Berry said that being the first African-American woman to win an Oscar for best actress has “meant nothing” as far as increasing diversity in Hollywood. Halle was the first black woman to win an Oscar for best actress, and remains the lone Black woman to have done so 15 years later. “Wow, that moment […]
Carmen Ambar was named the first African-American president of Oberlin College, an institution known for opening its doors to Blacks and women in the 1800s. It is the oldest liberal arts college in the United States and is the first college to admit African-Americans. Ambar, the school’s 15th president, is just the second woman to […]
Who run the world? According to Beyoncè – girls. And the girls who are doing the most these days when it comes to entrepreneurial endeavors are Black women. A 2015 report “State of Women-Owned Businesses Report” commissioned by American Express Open, provided some details on female-owned companies. African-American female entrepreneurs created businesses at a rate […]
