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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: WFLA 8 Over the weekend, a group of people who likely think “racial profiling” refers to white people using Black emojis on their social media posts painted a “Back the Blue” mural on a street outside the Tampa Police Department headquarters. At least I think it reads “Back the …

Read: Brexit and Britain’s Northern Ireland déjà vu Fierce criticism has been reserved for leaders in Dublin, London, and Belfast, whether Ireland’s former leader Leo Varadkar for his apparent naïveté, Theresa May or Boris Johnson for playing with the fire of Brexit, or the DUP’s Arlene Foster and Sinn Fein’s …

Grey Skye Evans sure makes it look easy. The 6-year-old social media phenomenon is getting a lot of love on Instagram for her performance of a bit of choreography from Beyoncé‘s recently-released Black Is King.   Grey is a social media influencer who’s doing quite well. She’s barely out of …

Share0 Image via Dominic Edwards Vegan food and plant-based diets continue to gain traction within the U.S. as Americans move to become more and more health-conscious. As more people want to try plant-based substitutes to change their eating habits, one woman became inspired by her journey to lose weight and …

Photo: Facebook On Sunday, Michigan Republican State Senator Tom Barrett learned that life comes at you fast. See, Barrett is a bit of a COVID-19 denier. He even sponsored a bill to limit Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s emergency powers, which included making masks mandatory. And then Sunday evening, Barrett learned …

Deadline reports that Tiny Talk Show produced by Art & Industry will be the world’s smallest functional talk show. In fact, it will be one-sixth the size of the usual talk show set. Martin will “ask the big questions and steer us through this new world as we discover sometimes …

Read: The strange pleasure of planning a post-pandemic vacation Similarly, while I enjoy sampling new cuisines abroad, I’m lost in my own kitchen. I never cooked until this year—literally never made pasta, never used olive oil, never cared that there are different kinds of potatoes. Now, like someone experiencing the …

Celebrating a decade of marriage, singer-songwriter Alicia Keys and her producer husband Swizz Beatz toasted to their 10-year wedding anniversary.  In two loving tributes, the couple shared separate heartwarming posts on Friday (July 31).  “My love, you are my dream come true!! You always make me smile. You make me laugh …

Fans and friends of Frank Ocean took to social media to send their condolences for the reported death of the singer’s 18-year-old brother Ryan Breaux. Breaux is believed to be one of the two people who died in a single-vehicle collision at about 1:30 a.m. on Sunday (August 2) in …