With all the talk about obesity and chronic disease in the African-American community, the surgeon general is out to educate Moms about an early preventive…
According to a new study published by Wake Forest University School of Medicine, scientists discovered that two out of every five Black women or 40…
Front and center in the ongoing debate around women’s rights are the issues of health care and freedom of choice. During a tense election cycle,…
Dear other woman, Stop being trifling. Signed, Womanhood (well, minus all polygamists) This Valentine’s Day some woman will again feel like “shyt people feel on…
The New York Times is reporting that Black women are enlisting in the military at far higher rates than are white or Hispanic women, and they now represent nearly a third of all the women in the armed forces, a new study by the Pew Research Center has found. The study found that of the […]
As much as we would prefer not to discuss it, skin tone complications of the past still afflict the psyche of present-day America, according to an article by TheGrio. And, to be sure, the studies the article cites don’t isolate the issue to the black community alone. Rather, the studies report that the issue is […]
Three weeks ago, actor Boris Kodjoe’s fingers got a little loose on Twitter. “Had nightmares thought about 300-pound women in thongs gnawing on chicken wings while grinding on me. Scary. Gotta Love North Carolina.” He did a quick save when his plus-sized followers asked what exactly he was trying to say. “Just to make it […]
Check out this very interesting article from Clutch Magazine: I love reality TV and I won’t apologize for it either. Maybe that makes me a part of the problem. It is entertaining and packed with drama, but the critic in me is highly interested in race, popular culture and gender representations on television which keep […]
Dark-skinned African American women receive harsher prison sentences and longer prison stays than their light-skinned counterparts, according to a university study, further corroborating the traditional belief that darker-hued blacks have to navigate through harsher obstacles in American life. Titled “The Impact of Light Skin on Prison Time for Black Female Offenders,” by Jill Viglione, Lance […]
The department of health in Massachusetts has announced that HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death for African-American women in the state. It was also found that more than half of all AIDS cases there consist of black women specifically — most of whom became infected by their intimate partners. Dr. Bela Bashar, a clinical […]
Do you think these are stereotypes or just a serious lack of good communication between black men and black woman? We often find ourselves at wits with the woman or man that we love. Check out this cartoon rendition how a black couple go through marriage negotiations and a young black couple trying to find […]
“I’m not crazy! I do not need to go see someone! I don’t need pills!” Sistas, how many times have you yourself uttered those phrases or heard another females say them? In the urban community we sarcastically joke with the phrase “such and such is crazy”. That person may truly have a need for psychiatric […]
