Tag: Black Girl Magic

By Scottie Andrew CNN The first Black woman to be crowned Miss Mississippi USA is now the reigning Miss USA. Asya Branch, a student at the University...

NPR California Sen. Kamala Harris will become the next vice president of the United States, shattering another racial and gender barrier in American politics, at...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times Being the first African-American to lead the Alabama State Nursing Association (ASNA) in the organization’s 107-year history is an honor,...

Essence The issues of maternal and infant mortality in communities of color, particularly in the Black community, are often ignored.  It is no secret that Black mothers...

By Sydney Melson The Birmingham Times Few could understand Courtney Kirk’s vision when she graduated from college, played professional basketball in Portugal, and returned home to...

By Dana Givens Black Enterprise Architecture is an extremely difficult field to enter, especially for people of color. In a 2018 report from the National Council of Architectural Registration Board,...

Derek T. Dingle www.blackenterprise.com When Ramona Hood achieved her milestone appointment as president and CEO of FedEx’s Custom Critical after a three-decade career with the company, the...

By Roy S. Johnson AL.com/The Birmingham News A few weeks into his tenure as the new CEO of The World Games 2021 Birmingham, Nick Sellers just...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times MiBella means “my beautiful” in Italian—and that’s the goal for Mia Cowan, MD, at her wellness center off of Highway...

Bpl.org Since becoming a teenage mother, Birmingham’s Ruby Y. Davis has defied the odds and refused to let hearsay—what others said about her—stop her from...