Posted in Black Women, Celebrity News on Jul 3rd, 2010
In one sense, Kelis is just like most working mothers, trying to raise her baby while maintaining her career. When she does interviews, her son, Knight, makes noises in the background as she answers questions.
Posted in Black Women, Rapper on Jun 12th, 2010
The women of WEEN (Women in Entertainment Empowerment Network), with members like MC Lyte, have written an open letter to in response to the recent conversations about Black women and negativity coming from black men.
Posted in Black Women on May 6th, 2010
Regina King is speaking out to her fellow black women and telling them to start dating outside their race.
Of all groups of people, Black women are the least likely group of women that will date outside of their race.
Posted in Black Women on May 1st, 2010
The former Matriarch of BET, co-founder Shelia Johnson is not happy with how her network has turned out. Sheila Johnson, along with her ex-husband Robert L. Johnson, cashed out for $1.3 billion in 2000 when they sold it to Viacom. In a recent interview, Shelia Johnson was asked her thoughts today on [...]
Posted in Black Women on Mar 6th, 2010
Posted in Black Women on Mar 6th, 2010
A loving friend is someone to lean on, as Jada Pinkett Smith experienced first hand.
While presenting Queen Latifah with the Power Award at the third annual Essence Black Women in Hollywood luncheon, Pinkett Smith became choked up over the recent passing of her father, who succumbed to a heart attack.
Posted in Black Women on Feb 2nd, 2010
Executive Producer Shonda Rhimes has just gotten a third medical series picked up by ABC. She created “Off The Map”, a medical drama revolving around three doctors, each anxious for a fresh start. They leave the comfort of the States to work at an isolated tropical clinic, where they face both exotic and unusual medical [...]
Posted in Black Women on Jan 29th, 2010
Actress Taraji P. Henson and recording artist/actress Mary J. Blige attend the ESSENCE Black Women in Music event at the Sunset Tower Hotel earlier this week in West Hollywood, California. The event honored some of the 2010 Grammy nominated women of color including, singer/songwriter Melanie Fiona.
Kelly Price
Posted in Black Women on Jan 9th, 2010
If you ask my parents they would say I was a perfect child, a model child, because I did everything that was asked of me. I got great grades, I was a great athlete, I was a student leader, the police were never called, there were never any major scandals on our cul-de-sac…but what was [...]
Posted in Black Women on Nov 2nd, 2009
Rev. Bernice King, the youngest child of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, on Friday became the first woman to head the Southern Christian Leadership Conference civil rights organization co-founded by her father.
“I stand before you as a daughter of the civil rights movement calling forth the daughters and sons [...]
Posted in Black Women on Oct 6th, 2009
- What makes Rhonda Powe and Wanda Powe Greenwood incredibly unique? Other than sharing an identical gender and date of birth, they were once teen mothers who prevailed against the odds and later earned a Ph.D. in Elementary, Middle and Secondary Administration from Mississippi State University in Starkville on Saturday, May 2, 2009.
Posted in Black Women on Aug 7th, 2009
There is a saying that “behind every good man, is a good woman,” however, in the case of The Honorable Minister Farrakhan, the leader of The Nation of Islam and the convener of the Million Man March, “behind every great man is a phenomenal woman.”
Posted in Black Women on Jul 14th, 2009
President Obama announced Monday he has chosen Dr. Regina Benjamin, a family practice doctor from the Gulf Coast, to serve as the country’s new surgeon general.
The rural family physician has long provided medical care on the Gulf Coast. In 1990, she founded Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in the fishing village of Bayou [...]
