A’ja Wilson wins AP Female Athlete of the Year following historic 4th WNBA MVP
A’ja Wilson stood atop the WNBA again in 2025, winning an unprecedented fourth MVP as her Las Vegas Aces earned a third championship in four seasons. For that, she earned The Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year on Wednesday for the first time in her career. It’s the second consecutive year a basketball player won the […]
20 Side Hustle Ideas To Make Extra Money During The Holidays And In 2026
by BLACK ENTERPRISE Editors December 11, 2025 The traditional path of working a full-time job until retirement is changing. The traditional path of working a full-time job until retirement is changing. More people are now exploring creative, flexible ways to earn extra income and build financial freedom on their own terms, especially as holiday expenses […]
Spelman Innovator Works To Train AI ‘In The Context Of Curls’
by Kandiss Edwards December 11, 2025 The inability of artificial intelligence to identify the complexity of Black hair reveals implicit bias in AI training. Bianca Burch, a Spelman College AI Innovation scholar, is leading an effort called “In the Context of Curls: to improve how artificial intelligence approaches Black hair. The project gathers feedback from […]
Open AI, Microsoft face lawsuit over ChatGPT’s alleged role in Connecticut murder-suicide
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The heirs of an 83-year-old Connecticut woman are suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft for wrongful death, alleging that the artificial intelligence chatbot intensified her son’s “paranoid delusions” and helped direct them at his mother before he killed her. Police said Stein-Erik Soelberg, 56, a former tech industry […]
Continuous Learning Is the New Job Security
Career stability used to depend on how many letters you had after your name denoting the degrees you’d earned, and being able to work your way up the ladder in one organization over many years. However, in today’s technology-driven environment with the half-life of skills shrinking across every industry, success is all about staying adaptable […]
How to Become a Life Coach in 2026—The Path to Certification
You have an itch to make a positive imprint on the world. That feeling is telling you that your life’s work involves guiding others. You’ve witnessed the power of life coaching, and you’ve thought, “That’s what I’m supposed to do.” It’s time to stop questioning that pull and start gaining the education required to make it […]
How to Achieve a Leadership Mindset
Have you ever felt like you’re destined for more, but something keeps holding back your leadership potential? Maybe you’ve seen some success, but you know you could achieve more. You look at others on social media getting bigger roles, hitting bolder goals and a voice whispers: “Why not me?” Think of the caterpillar and the […]
Former ‘Real Housewives’ star moved from prison to community program for remainder of her sentence
Jennifer Shah, a former star on “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” has been moved from a federal prison into a community confinement program after serving less than half of her sentence for defrauding thousands of people. A Bureau of Prisons spokesperson confirmed that Shah was transferred Wednesday morning from the Federal Prison Camp in […]
More than a decade after her death, Whitney Houston returns to No. 1 on the gospel charts
The power of Whitney Houston cannot be denied. Thirteen years after her untimely passing, the iconic singer holds the No. 1 and No. 3 spots on Billboard’s Gospel Streaming Songs chart with two of her classic Christmas songs. Houston’s take on “Do You Hear What I Hear?” ascended from No. 3 to the No. 1 […]
Mother of Georgia nurse kept alive to deliver unborn baby talks to ‘Nightline’
Six months after her daughter’s death, April Newkirk is still reliving the moment she learned her daughter, 31-year-old nurse Adriana Smith — then nine weeks pregnant with her second child — had been declared brain-dead. And yet, because her fetus still had a heartbeat, doctors kept Smith’s body on life support for four months. In […]