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Exhale.  I woke up this morning with a deep appreciation of the significance of this day. It is a day won not by any one person, but with the tireless effort of generations of Black women and women of color who have worked to make this moment possible. They are …

Tanaye White is one of the 2021 rookies in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue. (Photo: Sports Illustrated Swimsuit) The winners of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit‘s annual model search have finally been revealed and one of the two models, Tanaye White, is turning heads with her beautiful brown skin and lush mane …

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 …

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Photo: Michael Loccisano (Getty Images) Man, you gotta love Percy Miller. The man who gave us No Limit Records in the mid-late ’90s, kept us entertained with club-bangers and hood-flicks through the early 2000s and has never stopped being a shining example of relentless hustle and God-tier Black entrepreneurship, is …

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But with each passing convention, the program became more predictable, designed more with television in mind. Colors were softened from red, white, and blue to salmon, ivory, and robin’s egg. Scheduling became ever more precise and punctual. Speeches became shorter and more personal. The best seats were reassigned from delegates …

I will never forget the first time I heard the name Michelle Obama. It was the winter of 2008. She was the wife of then Democratic presidential candidate Barack H. Obama, a man, who was the fairly unknown junior senator from Illinois with the funny name.  Michelle was making headlines …

‘);var c=function(){cf.showAsyncAd(opts)};if(typeof window.cf !== ‘undefined’)c();else{cf_async=!0;var r=document.createElement(“script”),s=document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0];r.async=!0;r.src=”http://srv.clickfuse.com/showads/showad.js”;r.readyState?r.onreadystatechange=function(){if(“loaded”==r.readyState||”complete”==r.readyState)r.onreadystatechange=null,c()}:r.onload=c;s.parentNode.insertBefore(r,s)}; })(); Former President Barack Obama addressed Democrats Wednesday night (Aug. 19) during the third night of the Democratic National Convention, and he did NOT hold back on his criticisms of sitting President Donald Trump while endorsing his own former Vice President, Joe Biden, …

Karrueche Tran is writing the next chapter of her life on her own terms. Naysayers may have doubted her ability to rebound from her tumultuous relationship — and break up — with Chris Brown in 2015, but the 32-year-old actress has proven that her story is far from over. Chapter …