North Carolina A&T State University recently announced Jordyn Foster as its new director of football operations, the first woman to hold the position. At age 22, Foster is breaking barriers in the male-dominated sports industry…
Femly, a Black female-led organic period care brand has won the 5th annual HI-HERImpact Pitch Competition. Organised by 1863 Ventures and Ford Motor Company Fund, the competition enables women social entrepreneurs to boost their enterprises…
Latanya Mapp Frett has been named as the next Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) President and CEO. Following an extensive global search, the RPA Board of Directors chose Frett as the ideal person to lead the…
Barbados-born music and fashion billionaire Robyn ‘Rihanna’ Fenty is back in the stores again with another soccer-inspired Fenty X Puma sneakers christened Fenty X Puma Avanti. The multitalented musician and business mogul unveiled the latest…
NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston has named a new building after its first Black manager, Dorothy Vaughan. Building 12 was named the “Dorothy Vaughan Center in Honor of the Women of Apollo” in honor…
Track and field star Allyson Felix has received a $20 million grant from Melinda French Gates to support Black maternal health organizations. The donation is a part of a broader $1 billion commitment to support…
The Essence Festival of Culture recently held at the Caesars Superdome generated a windfall of over $300 million for New Orleans, according to the city’s mayor. The festival, which celebrates African American culture, blends music…
Ghanaian doctor Nancy Abu-Bonsrah has made history, becoming the first Black woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins University’s neurosurgery program. She pursued her clinical interests in neurosurgery, neurotrauma and neurosurgical capacity building in low-and-middle-income countries.…
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