Isabelle Harrison always looked forward to going to Indiana to play no matter what WNBA team she was on. It gave her a chance to catch up with her brother Daniel, who’s been battling lupus since he was 13. Last weekend, when Harrison accompanied her New York Liberty teammate and

Kennedy Ryan doesn’t just write romance novels. She reshapes the genre with every book. As a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, her stories showcase Black women as complex, desirable, and fully human, starring in love stories that are tender, political, and deeply personal. In an interview with

In Hulu’s brand-new action-packed series “Washington Black,” freedom isn’t the end goal for the eponymous main character who was born into enslavement in Barbados—it’s just the beginning of his story.  The series, starring Sterling K. Brown, Ernest Kingsley Junior, Eddie Karanja, Iola Evans, and Edward Bluemel—and adapted from a novel

Hopping into a stranger’s car is already a weird concept when you think about it. Add the potential of being flirted with, harassed, or just straight-up creeped out by a driver, and it becomes an all-too-familiar uncomfortable experience for women.  To ease some of that anxiety and address long-standing safety

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order mandating that federal authorities clarify whether college athletes can be considered employees of the schools they play for — attempting to create clearer national standards for the NCAA’s name image and likeness program. The move comes amid a dramatic increase in the money

A deal between Columbia University and the Trump administration calls for the Ivy League school to pay more than $220 million to resolve multiple federal investigations into alleged violations of federal antidiscrimination laws. The agreement announced Wednesday clears the way for the school to keep billions of dollars in federal research money, including more

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus came out swinging in a letter to the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who, along with President Donald Trump, has accused, without evidence, President Barack Obama of committing treason. The group of nearly two dozen Black lawmakers are calling on Gabbard to “immediately”

Before jumping to conclusions about Black women’s bodies, understand that many of us are out here silently battling conditions like PCOS, fibroids, and endometriosis, and more, with our concerns often dismissed, and oftentimes without the support we need. Lately, a corner of the internet has been buzzing with conversations about

Claressa “The GWOAT” Shields is a world champion boxer (several times over) and two-time Olympic gold medalist who also happens to be a lightning rod for controversy at this point in her career, and that’s not necessarily a criticism. Shields has become a fascinating interview, largely because of her backstory,

Red Lobster’s CEO, Damola Adamolekun, lives for the comments section.  During a Wednesday, July 23rd appearance on “Good Morning America,” the 36-year-old CEO shared that after considering customer feedback and implementing changes in record time, the key to saving the struggling seafood chain has been simple: Listen to the people,