Tag: black women

By Janell Ross NBC News NEW ORLEANS — When Mayor LaToya Cantrell — the first woman to lead Crescent City — took office earlier this year,...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times Sen. Kamala Harris made her first stop in Alabama over the weekend as a Democratic candidate for U.S. President and...

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...

By Je’Don Holloway Talley For the Birmingham Times Sacorya Adams, a 28-year-old McCalla resident and mother of two daughters, is passionate about breastfeeding. “Breastfeeding has helped my...

By Je’Don Holloway Talley For the Birmingham Times On a recent Friday evening, members of Unicorns R’ Us gathered outside Good People Brewing Company in downtown...

By Je’Don Holloway Talley For the Birmingham Times Given what she faced during the birth of her first child, Jennifer Miller said she wants to make...

By Sarah Ruiz-Grossman Black Voices Black women made military history on Saturday, as the West Point military academy graduated its class of 2019 with its highest-ever...

By Mark Kennedy Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When Cheslie Kryst won the Miss USA crown, it marked more than a personal triumph: It meant...

By Sanjana Karanth Black Voices Lori Lightfoot will be Chicago’s next mayor after Tuesday’s highly anticipated race. She’ll become the first black woman ever to lead...

By Ameera Steward The Birmingham Times Deirdre Gaddis woke up one night in 2013 and decided to let it all go. “I just got up out of...