Few legal scholars have changed global discussions on race and justice as significantly as Kimberlé Crenshaw. She is a professor at Columbia Law School and UCLA School of Law. So far, Crenshaw has spent over four decades examining how power, race, and gender interact in law and society. Her main contribution, intersectionality, has evolved from […]
In the boardrooms and offices of corporate America, a quiet shift is changing who leads, innovates, and accumulates wealth. Black women, recognized as some of the most educated, resilient, and high-performing professionals in the U.S. economy, are moving away from traditional career paths to create something new: ownership, independence, and generational wealth on their own […]
A group of university students in the United States is working to incorporate the overlooked Black women’s voices into the historical record. They are using a digital humanities project to preserve and publish personal diaries from the 19th and early 20th centuries. According to reports, the initiative is called the Black Women’s Diaries Project (BWDP). […]
Federal authorities have arrested three suspects in connection with the kidnapping, stabbing, and robbery of two women in Washington, D.C., an attack prosecutors say was carefully orchestrated and carried out in October. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, 18-year-old Robynn Danielle Bynum of Fort Washington, Maryland, 20-year-old Cierra Charity Lee, […]
When you picture the U.S. tech industry, chances are you don’t see enough faces that look like yours, or your sister’s, or your daughter’s. But every so often, someone comes along who changes the narrative, who proves that brilliance, grit, and leadership come in every shade. Black women are really the entire narrative. Today, we’re […]
