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Interviews, Sports

A Revealing Look At Human Rights Violations In Sport in New Documentary ‘Category:Woman’

A Revealing Look At Human Rights Violations In Sport in New Documentary ‘Category:Woman’

What defines a woman? Who gets to decide on that definition? These questions are as controversial as they are dehumanizing, especially given the current landscape of gender discrimination we are […]

Entertainment

New Web Series “Killer Workout” Addresses Racism Through Horror, Comedy & Violence

New Web Series “Killer Workout” Addresses Racism Through Horror, Comedy & Violence

Is violence justifiable in a violently oppressive culture? This is the main question being explored in the new dark, satirical comedy web series ‘Killer Workout’, available to watch on Revry.tv. […]

Entertainment

Author Susan Azim Boyer. Image by Kyle Christensen

Iranian-American Author’s YA Debut Addresses Impact of Harmful Racial Media Stereotypes

In ‘Jasmine Zumideh Needs A Win’ (out November 1, 2022, Wednesday Books) Iranian American debut author Susan Azim Boyer depicts a high school election derailed by negative media coverage of […]

Health

Overlooked And Dismissed: How Doctors Often Ignore Women’s Pain

Overlooked And Dismissed: How Doctors Often Ignore Women’s Pain

By Indiana Lee The medical industry has an ugly history of mistreating and ignoring women. For hundreds of years, social gender inequalities have been intensified under the watch of medical […]

Creativity

Award-Winning Fiction Examines Impact Of Racism & Classism On An Upper-Middle Class Black American Family

Award-Winning Fiction Examines Impact Of Racism & Classism On An Upper-Middle Class Black American Family

If there is one book you MUST add to your reading list this year, it is Toni Ann Johnson’s ‘Light Skin Gone To Waste’, set to be released on October […]

Girl on a Mission

Award-Winning Journalist & Thought Leader May Lee On Using Her Platform To Elevate AAPI Voices

Award-Winning Journalist & Thought Leader May Lee On Using Her Platform To Elevate AAPI Voices

Born in Columbus, Ohio to Korean immigrant parents, May Lee is an award-winning broadcast journalist, host of “The May Lee Show” podcast, adjunct professor at USC, and founder of Lotus Media […]

Girl on a Mission

Actress/Singer/Activist Malynda Hale On A Mission To Make More Black Voices Heard

Actress/Singer/Activist Malynda Hale On A Mission To Make More Black Voices Heard

America, it’s time we had a talk. A REAL honest, uncomfortable, lay-it-all-out-on-the-table kinda talk. There are many people leading the way on important conversations regarding topics that are being unearthed […]

Creativity

All-Black Femme Creative Team Giving A Modern Take On Shakespeare’s OTHELLO

All-Black Femme Creative Team Giving A Modern Take On Shakespeare’s OTHELLO

Between April 8 -17, 2021, the Women’s Theatre Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina, is putting on a virtual performance of Shakespeare’s iconic Othello play, but with a unique and modern […]

Contributors

Gone Black Girls: Finding the Forgotten, Telling Their Stories

Gone Black Girls: Finding the Forgotten, Telling Their Stories

By Pamela Harris When I was five years old, I woke up to an empty apartment. I ran to my parents’ room, ready to jump into bed with them — […]

Contributors

Former Correspondent Offers An In-Depth Look At China In New Memoir Where Personal Meets Political

Former Correspondent Offers An In-Depth Look At China In New Memoir Where Personal Meets Political

By Dori Jones Yang When I was in my twenties, I avoided dating any guy I thought might prevent me from achieving my big ambition: to become a foreign correspondent […]

Entertainment

Why You Should Read “Swirl Girl, The Coming Of Race In The USA”, By TaRessa Stovall

Why You Should Read “Swirl Girl, The Coming Of Race In The USA”, By TaRessa Stovall

By Nancy Burke “Swirl Girl, the Coming of Race in the USA” by TaRessa Stovall is your first step in learning what it is like to walk through the world […]

Creativity

Fmr Roe v. Wade Reporter & Psychologist Releases New Novel Covering Abortion, Race & Child Abandonment In The 1960s.

Fmr Roe v. Wade Reporter & Psychologist Releases New Novel Covering Abortion, Race & Child Abandonment In The 1960s.

The following is an excerpt from author, award-winning journalist and psychologist Jean K. Carney’s ‘Blackbird Blues’ (October 1, Bedazzled Ink Publishing). Following the death of her teacher and mentor Sister […]

Entertainment

Leaving Silence Behind: How I Overcame Stigma From Racism & AIDS By Telling My Story

Leaving Silence Behind: How I Overcame Stigma From Racism & AIDS By Telling My Story

By Elena Schwolsky I shifted nervously in my metal folding chair. The harsh fluorescent lights of the church basement magnified my discomfort. I was attending my first meeting of a […]

Working Women

Six Ways To Tactfully Educate Your Coworkers About Racism

Six Ways To Tactfully Educate Your Coworkers About Racism

By Samaria Johnson for Fairygodboss Unless you work at the American Civil Liberties Union, you probably don’t expect to engage in racially-based discussions at your place of employment. However, these […]

Working Women

4 Ways I’ve Learned To Overcome Imposter Syndrome As A Woman Of Color

4 Ways I’ve Learned To Overcome Imposter Syndrome As A Woman Of Color

By Kaitlyn Borysiewicz for Fairygodboss I remember walking into my first job straight out of college, wondering if my hair was combed down enough or if the comments I interjected […]