Celebrity Photo’s ESSENCE Black Women In Hollywood Luncheon
Posted in Black Women on Mar 6th, 2010
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Queen Latifah Comes to Jada Pinkett Smith’s Rescue
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.
Shonda Rhimes has third medical series picked up by ABC[Congrats ]
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 [...]
ESSENCE Black Women in Music event
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.
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Gabrielle Union vents on issues she had growing up
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 [...]
MLK’S DAUGHTER IS SCLC’S FIRST FEMALE PREZ
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 [...]
TEEN MOMS BEAT THE ODDS AND RECEIVED A DOCTORATE OF PHILOSOPHY
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.
MINISTER FARRAKHAN’S WIFE FEATURED IN NATIONAL WOMEN’S MAGAZINE
Posted in Black Women on Aug 7th, 2009
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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.”
Dr. Regina Benjamin new surgeon general nom.
Posted in Black Women on Jul 14th, 2009
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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.      Â
      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 [...]
Jacque Reid: “Should Black Women Consider Dating More White Men?”
Posted in Black Women on Mar 2nd, 2009
Michelle Obama’s first official portrait as first lady
Posted in Black Women, Obama on Mar 1st, 2009
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Michelle Obama’s first official portrait as first lady was released by the White House Friday.
She appears in a Michael Kors black shift dress and pearls in the photo, taken in the famed home’s “Blue Room
FORMER NATIONAL NAACP LEADER APPOINTED TO CENSUS
Posted in Black Women, NAACP on Sep 10th, 2008
*With the goal that the 2010 Census include everyone, the Charlotte Regional Census Center has named a former national NAACP leader and community activist, Mary Lee Peeler, to a key regional position.
Peeler will coordinate outreach and promotional efforts during the federal government’s 23rd nationwide headcount in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Peeler’s many [...]
How Jada Pinkett Smith Keeps Kids On Right Path
Posted in Black Women, Celebrity News on Aug 29th, 2008
With her children starring in box office hits and growing up with two famous parents, Jada Pinkett Smith is determined to not let the Hollywood scene lead her kids down the wrong path. Admitting she probably would not have survived as a young celebrity herself, Jada claims that “it would blow your mind” to know [...]
JENNIFER HUDSON’S PHOTO’S
Posted in Black Women, JENNIFER HUDSON on Aug 14th, 2008
Peep Jennifer Hudson’s new promo pics.
Hail Michelle Obama, Mother-in-Chief
Posted in Black Women, Obama on Aug 5th, 2008
Forget the pearls. Michelle Obama says her best accessory is her husband. “Barack and I - as partners, as friends and as lovers - we accessorize each other in many ways,” said Obama, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
“The best thing I love having on me is Barack on my arm and vice versa, [...]