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In the wake of the Michael Brown, Eric Garner, John Crawford, Ezell Ford murders by police officers, let’s not forget about the Black women who have lost…

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There are currently 64,000 Black women missing in the United States. Natallie Wilson, co-founder of the Black and Missing Foundation and Avis Jones-DeWeever joined Roland…

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A new report released Thursday found that, while black women are becoming a political and economic powerhouses, they’re still quite vulnerable in other respects. “Black Women in the United…

Black women in Hollywood. This seems to be the most neverending topic in pop culture. With the rising of Lupita Nyong’o's star, several op-eds about…

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Data from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reveals that black women had more abortions than live births in 2012. While…

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Roland Martin talks with Dr. Janna Andrews and singer Kelly Price about breast cancer’s impact on Black women. White women are more likely to get a…

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According to a new study published by Wake Forest University School of Medicine, scientists discovered that two out of every five Black women or 40…

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Front and center in the ongoing debate around women’s rights are the issues of health care and freedom of choice. During a tense election cycle,…

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We all know that the Queen of All Media likes to keep things stirred up. Ms. Wendy is at it again.  In an interview, yesterday, Wendy said that black women are jealous of her assets. Her surgically enhanced assets. Read the Msn.com story here and then tell us what you think!

Do you think black women, who are overweight, want to be? Author Alice Randall thinks so. She shared her opinion in a New York Times article and the responses have lit up the Internet. In the article, she calls for a “body-culture revolution in Black America” in light of growing obesity and diabetes rates among […]

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For the passengers on a recent Atlantic Southeast Airlines flight, an Atlanta based Delta Connection regional carrier, little did they know when they boarded that particular trip to their destination they were witnesses to aviation and Black history. They had boarded the first US airline flight staffed by an all African-American female flight crew comprised […]

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By Donovan X. Ramsey Beginning in March, a black woman will be at the helm of a major fire department for the first time in U.S. history. SEE ALSO: Obama: I Deserve Re-Election Top 5 Winter Travel Destinations Theresa Deloach-Reed, 52, was named chief of the Oakland city fire department. Reed has been fighting fires […]