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LONDON, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 13: A guest wears a bob hat, a beige jumpsuit, during London Fashion Week September 2019 on September 13, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Edward Berthelot/Getty Images) By Andrea Bossi ·Updated March 2, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

Generative artificial intelligence might be the next big push, especially in professional settings, as a tool to improve productivity and skills more quickly. But what

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By Andrea Bossi ·Updated March 4, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

To date, no Black astronaut has walked on nor orbited the moon. 

But that is set to change this spring. NASA’s upcoming mission, Artemis II, has a target date on the horizon, which will make Captain Victor Glover the first Black astronaut to travel to the moon. Glover is assigned to pilot the flyby mission and is joined by

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By Merline Saintil ·Updated February 28, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

Five years ago, Robin Washington and I started Black Women on Boards with a simple problem: we were both at capacity – serving on multiple boards, fielding opportunities – but we knew so many amazing Black women who were not getting the calls. What began as a single Zoom call in October 2020, bringing together 18 women executives,

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By Andrea Bossi ·Updated March 3, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

It seems like Black women in the workforce are under siege right now. Not only was there a forced exodus of hundreds of thousands of Black women in 2025 thanks to federal job cuts, but as Black unemployment rises in the face of a cooling labor market, systemic challenges, and the aftermath of axed DEI initiatives, Black women

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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – SEPTEMBER 3: Angel Reese #5 of the Chicago Sky dribbles the ball against the Connecticut Sun at Wintrust Arena on September 3, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images) By Kimberly Wilson ·Updated March 3, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

At some point you have probably pulled up a ticketing app looking for WNBA (or any women’s sporting event) seats and ended up

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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – SEPTEMBER 3: Angel Reese #5 of the Chicago Sky dribbles the ball against the Connecticut Sun at Wintrust Arena on September 3, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images) By Kimberly Wilson ·Updated March 3, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

At some point you have probably pulled up a ticketing app looking for WNBA (or any women’s sporting event) seats and ended up

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Updated March 3, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

JJ Johnson says he knew he wanted to be a chef at seven years old, when a Culinary Institute of America commercial came on TV and something just clicked. 

But if you ask him where it really started, he’ll take you back further than that, to his Afro Puerto-Rican grandmother’s kitchen. He was born on Long Island, raised between New York City and

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By Andrea Bossi ·Updated March 3, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

Slutty Vegan is in a jam. Founder Pinky Cole filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on March 2.

The Baltimore-born entrepreneur’s vegan burger chain owes $1.2 million to the U.S. Small Business Administration and $192,000 to the Georgia Department of Revenue, per court filings. Cole — who stars on the current season of Real Housewives of Atlanta, Season 17 —