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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated March 22, 2024
The multi-talented artist, architect, and author Peju Alatise recently inaugurated Rele Gallery, the first and only contemporary African art gallery on Dover Street in The Guardian reports, “[f]ew African women have established galleries across three continents.”
“Having a gallery that originated in Nigeria, with locations in two other continents is in itself a conversation shifter,” Sonariwo stated. “It shows what is possible and
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Patricia Johnson-Gibson leads a march with the Service Employees International Union | Photo courtesy of SEIU Local 105 By Safire R. Sostre ·Updated March 21, 2024
“It is my undying belief that Black women are the tide that raises all ships,” says Andrea Thornton Bolden, a showrunner and executive producer. “It’s not a strange sight at all to see Black women in the forefront of many movements, because those are the spaces
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Patricia Johnson-Gibson leads a march with the Service Employees International Union | Photo courtesy of SEIU Local 105 By Safire R. Sostre ·Updated March 21, 2024
“It is my undying belief that Black women are the tide that raises all ships,” says Andrea Thornton Bolden, a showrunner and executive producer. “It’s not a strange sight at all to see Black women in the forefront of many movements, because those are the spaces
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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated March 21, 2024
On Wednesday, Vaughan Gething was elected as First Minister of Wales, becoming the first Black leader in Europe, per CBS News.
Self-described as “a Welshman born in Zambia,” Gething recalls experiencing racism after his family relocated to Britain. He joined the Labour party when he was 17-years-old “after being inspired by articles about Nelson Mandela he read.”
Last September, Gething visited Birmingham, Ala. as a representative
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(Photo by Sarah Silbiger for The Washington Post via Getty Images By Melissa Noel ·Updated March 21, 2024
Democratic lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration to protect millions of older Americans at risk of losing some of their Social Security benefits because they defaulted on their student loans.
According to a recent report from The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, nearly 40% of borrowers aged 65 or older are in default on their student
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By Melissa Noel ·Updated March 21, 2024
A Chicago community is grieving the loss of 11-year-old Jayden Perkins, who police say was fatally stabbed while trying “to protect his mother” in a domestic violence incident.
Jayden’s mother, Laterria Smith, had an order of protection against Crosetti Brand, with whom she had a relationship 15 years ago. Brand allegedly broke into her home on March 13 and stabbed her and her son, authorities said
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By Brande Victorian ·Updated March 21, 2024
I meet Luana Génot at a restaurant inside the Fairmont Rio overlooking the famous Copacabana beach in
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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated March 20, 2024
Every year, March is designated as National Athletic Training Month. This year, ESSENCE is celebrating by profiling Vanessa Brooks, who made history in 2019 when she joined the NBA as the first Black woman to be dually certified as an athletic trainer and physical therapist.
Watch any Oklahoma Thunder NBA game, and you can find Brooks sitting in “the front row of the Thunder’s bench,”
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By Alphonso David and Maya Rockeymoore Cummings ·Updated March 20, 2024
Last year, conservative groups began a growing national effort to launch litigation against any program that uses race or ethnicity to target funding and other supports that address disparities and solve social problems. Although racially targeted health equity programs are not illegal, decades of legal attacks on affirmative action in education and business contracting have placed a chilling effect on initiatives