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March 11, 2024
Several Black stars showed up at the 96th Academy Awards Sunday night (March 10) in hopes of taking one of the most prestigious honors in entertainment. Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel hosted the high-profile ceremony for the fourth time at ...
It was 2003 when Kimo Bentley crafted her first soap bar in her New York apartment. The shea butter-based oatmeal and brown sugar exfoliating soap bar didn’t start as a business venture but as a Trinidadian mother’s desperation to alleviate her ...
My grandmother’s name was Mrs. Zola Jackson. As one of the handful of Black teachers in Mississippi during the Jim Crow era of racially segregated public schools, she faced a daunting challenge in providing a first-class education to students considered second ...
Wah Wah Watson from the 1970s with Herbie Hancock and Bennie Maupin
Black romance authors have been some of the leading advocates for change in the books industry. Despite a notoriously racially stratified, exclusionary history and the TikTok algorithms that can help books go viral sometimes reinforcing lines of ...
Lillian Lincoln Lambert graduated from Harvard Business School (HBS) in 1969, just six years after Harvard first opened its doors to women. One of six Black students and 18 women in a class of 800, Lillian was unaware that she was the first Black woman to ...
In celebration of Black History Month, Entrepreneur contributor Terry Rice hosted a compelling Twitter Spaces conversation featuring dynamic entrepreneurs Pariss Chandler, Kashmir Thompson and Chrishon Lampley....
Between March 10th and 12th of 1972, the West Side High School auditorium was buzzing with excitement and hope. The room was filled with a tour de force of black political activists, politicians, and cultural figures. Comedian Dick Gregory delivered ...
David E. Harris, the first Black pilot to fly a commercial plane for a major airline and the first Black man to achieve the rank of Pilot Captain for a major U.S. commercial airline, has died at 89, American Airlines confirmed Saturday. There was no immediate...
Tiffany Moore lived in Highland Hills on the south side of Fort Worth as a child, but she describes Chamberlain Plaza in the Lake Como community — about 10 miles away and southwest of downtown Fort Worth — as the place she and her cousins were raised ...
D'Wayne Edwards never set out to be a designer or an educator, and encountered a number of what seemed at the time like closed doors (like not being able to go to college or having awards rescinded) throughout his life. But somehow, these ...
