Tag: black women
Kim Godwin First Black Woman Named ABC News President
By David Bauder
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — ABC named Kim Godwin as its news division president on Wednesday, making her the first Black woman...
Google Announces Initiative to Train 100,000 Black Women in Digital Skills...
By Derek Major
Black Enterprise
Google officially launched an initiative last week to provide 100,000 Black women with career development and digital skills training by 2022.
The...
Malveaux: The impact of Black women’s voices
By Julianne Malveaux
Patriarchy baffles me as much as white supremacy does. How do the men, birthed by women, consider us inferior? When we raise...
‘Game-Changer’: Kamala Harris Makes History As Next Vice President
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...
Sharpe-Jefferson: Strong Black Women and Redefining Mental Health
By Keisa Sharpe-Jefferson
She is a powerful force.
She is emotionally strong.
She appears to bear it all.
The traditional image of the strong Black woman - is...
How Barbara Curry-Strong Overcame Racial Barriers in Alabama
By Donna Cope
Alabama NewsCenter
Adversity can spur one to achieve great things.
At 17, Barbara Curry-Story was stuck between a rock and a hard place. She...
Event Planner Rashada LeRoy to Produce 2021 World Games Ceremonies
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...
UAB’s Deborah Grimes Named one of the Most Influential Women in...
By Bob Shepard
UAB News
Deborah Grimes, the chief diversity officer for the UAB Health System, has been named one of the most influential women in corporate...
Overcoming Challenges and Finding Success in the STEM Field
By Idrissa N. Snider
For The Birmingham Times
One of the more challenging fields for African Americans remain STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) but there are...
Dr. Patrice Harris Sworn-In as American Medical Association’s First Black Female...
By Stacy M. Brown
BlackPressUSA
In June, Dr. Patrice A. Harris, a psychiatrist from Atlanta, was sworn-in as the 174th president of the American Medical Association...
