

How Sisters Debbie Allen and Phylicia Rashad Built on Their Family's Artistic Dynasty
On a Sunday afternoon, Debbie Allen mills around the spacious kitchen of her Santa Monica home, holding her first grandchild,...


Poet Sonia Sanchez Wins Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award
Sonia Sanchez's work as a groundbreaking poet will be honored in Cleveland Thursday night with the lifetime achievement honor from the...


Top 8 Black-Owned Handbag Brands That You Should Support
American women spend as much as $160 on a handbag and own an average of about 11 handbags. Ten percent of women have more than 20 bags in...


The Founders Of The Black Girls’ Book Club On Staging Their First Literary Festival
As a concept, the book club has been well and truly revitalised. Its parochial, fuddy-duddy connotations, while not wholly dismissed,...


Black Entrepreneur Develops First Ever Hybrid Beauty Product For Women With Darker Skin
Nationwide — Dibawssette is expanding the reach of its already-acclaimed Queendom Cushion Foundation, a hybrid foundation, after its...


Lupita Nyong'o Wrote a Book For Girls of Color to "See More Dark Skin in a Beautiful Light&
Lupita Nyong'o is now a published author, and her children's picture book Sulwe — which means star in her native language Luo — sends a...