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Featuring a broad cross-section of women who have distinguished themselves across a rich variety of careers, our Portraits of Power series is a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Black Enterprise, and of black women. It’s a place for today’s businesswomen to share their own favorite images and their own …

Screenshot: ABC News’ A Hidden America: Women Behind Bars and the Families They Left Behind (YouTube) Eraina Pretty, Maryland’s longest-incarcerated woman, has spent 42 years of her 60-year sentence behind bars for a violent crime. Since she’s been in prison, Pretty has acted as a mentor to fellow inmates and …

Photo: Nicholas Hunt (Getty Images for The Reform Alliance) The American prison system is, in a word, trash. prisoners are often faced with inhumane conditions and treatment, and the cramped living spaces make it one of the worst places to be in the midst of a pandemic. Luckily, there are …

Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox. CELINA PEREIRA Recently, my colleague McKay Coppins did something that, three months ago, would’ve been considered …

Lee Merritt became a household name after fighting in several high-profile cases for the families of Black men and women who have died at the hands of police.  He is the attorney representing the family of Ahmaud Arbery, who was slain in February by two men who law enforcement officials …

Share0 Google HQ in Mountain View, CA (iStock/SpVVK) Since the start of the COVID-19, or novel coronavirus, pandemic, over 700,000 jobs have been lost causing over 30 million American workers to file for unemployment putting their financial health in jeopardy. Many small business owners have been forced to shut down …

Photo: Nicholas Johnson. Photo by Lisa Festa (Princeton University Center for Career Development) Well, it only took 274 years for it to happen, but Princeton University recently named its first African American valedictorian. In late April, it was announced that operations research and financial engineering major Nicholas Johnson will be …

Editor’s Note: This article is part of Uncharted, a series about the world we’re leaving behind, and the one being remade by the pandemic. Where were you planning to be on the Fourth of July this year? Backyard barbecue with your crankiest relatives, fighting over who gets to light the …

The Real talk show co-host Amanda Seales took aim at white celebrities who are calling for justice for Ahmaud Arbery on social media, but are turning off the comments on their posts. Ahmaud Arbery, 25, was gunned down while jogging near his Georgia hometown by white men who said they …

Share0 (Image: iStock.com/sebastianosecondi) The massive spread of COVID-19, or the novel coronavirus, pandemic, has revealed economic and racial inequities that the United States has been dealing with for decades; from the disproportionate rate of black people contracting the virus to the economic hardships many of the country’s poorest have been …