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Funk And Soul Icon Betty Davis Dead At 77 The pioneering singer, songwriter, producer, and model is also known for her brief, influential marriage to Miles Davis.

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Solange & Saint Heron Launch Free Digital Library Featuring Rare Works by Black Authors Rosa Duffy, founder of Atlanta-based Community Bookstore curates the first season of Saint Heron's Library. Launching today, the library offers free and rare titles from Black authors. Solange’s Saint Heron is serving up its newest offering, a free library of rare and collector’s edition books b...

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From Receptionist to Actress: How Taraji P. Henson Built a $25 Million Net Worth Actress Taraji P. Henson is making money moves, and showing Black women what's possible on and off the screen. She has racked up a $25 million net worth.

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Long Marred By Racism, St. Louis Elects 1st Black Female Mayor Amid unrest at local jails, surging gun violence and a pandemic that has disproportionately hurt people of color, Tishaura Jones says: "We are done avoiding race and how it holds this region back."

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Shamed for body hair growing up, Desi women now challenging racist standards When white models and influencers decided thick eyebrows were in, South Asian women struggled to recover the natural features they had been shamed into thinning. Now, they’re undoing the internalized shame they've felt about their body hair for years.

Stacey Abrams Has Been Nominated For A Nobel Peace Prize The former Georgia lawmaker was lauded for work that "follows in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s footsteps in the fight for equality.”

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Harlem Community Rallies In Support Of Woman Attacked By Group Of Men Whose Advances She Declined - Blavity Hundreds of Harlem residents protested on behalf of a woman who was attacked by a group of men who accosted her while she tried to buy a bottle of wine after work on Jan. 18. According to interviews with local NBC and ABC affiliates, the woman, who asked not to be identified, was walking home from w...

JoJo Siwa Shut Down a Homophobic Mom With 4 Letters, and I'm in Awe JoJo Siwa is beloved by millions of kids and known around the globe for her peppy videos and extremely oversize, rainbow-colored hair bows, but after she publicly shared this week that she is a member of the LGBTQ+ community, she's gotten even more attention. And although most of it has been in the....

Harris to be sworn in as vice president by Justice Sonia Sotomayor Kamala Harris will be sworn in Wednesday as the next vice president of the United States by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, according to a Harris aide.

All-female team delivers COVID-19 vaccines in harshest of conditions in rural Alaska Health care workers in Alaska distribute the COVID-19 vaccine in extreme conditions.

Joy Reid Shreds Police Double Standards On Pro-Trump Insurrectionists And BLM "I guarantee you if that was a Black Lives Matter protest in D.C., there would already be people shackled, arrested or dead," said the MSNBC host.

Meet The Black Women Who turned Georgia Blue — Represent Collaborative Yep, it was Stacey. But don’t forget about Nsé, Helen, Tamieka, Melanie, LaTosha and Deborah.

International Women’s Day 2021 theme – “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world” UN Women announces the theme for International Women’s Day, 8 March 2021 (IWD 2021) as, “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world.”

Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American movie star and the first Asian American actress to become internationally famous, was born on this day in 1905. Wong is often remembered for her efforts to combat racial inequality and ethnic stereotypes in early film.

Born Wong Liu Tsong in Los Angeles, Wong was a third generation Chinese American, who grew up working at her family's laundry business but her dream was to star on the silver screen. The West Coast was just beginning its reign as the center for film studios, and young Wong was enthralled. By the age of nine she had chosen her stage name, Anna May Wong. At age 17, she landed her first leading role in the Technicolor film "The Toll of the Sea," a performance that received rave reviews.

Critical praise continued to follow Wong but the only jobs being offered were for supporting roles depicting stereotypical characters. Her hopes for leading roles were limited, as the laws of the day even prevented in*******al kisses from appearing on-screen. Frustrated by the limited options, and a tendency for Hollywood to cast non-Asians for Asian characters, Wong pursued stage and screen roles elsewhere. Her travels brought her to Europe, where she developed a glowing reputation, but she eventually moved back to Hollywood. She continued to be met with and challenge typecast roles for the duration of her career, which lasted for 40 years and included 54 films.

While Wong began acting in the silent film era, she is one of the few actresses who successfully made the transition to cinema with sound. Her contributions to the film industry have been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a pillar depicting her image in the "Gateway to Hollywood" sculpture.

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The first woman Green Beret faces a 'minor misdemeanor' charge over accidental gunshot in an apartment Colorado police say a National Guard soldier, who was the first woman to earn the Special Forces tab and coveted Green Beret. received a summons.

Dwyane Wade Declares His 'Unconditional Love' For Daughter Zaya In A Heartfelt Post The former basketball player lends his full support to his daughter who came out as transgender earlier this year.

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The winter solstice begins a season of storytelling and ceremony In the Northern Hemisphere, the December solstice is the year’s day of least sunlight, when the sun takes its lowest, shortest path across the sky. North of the Arctic Circle, it is the midpoint of the period of darkness, when even twilight doesn’t reach the horizon. We asked a few of our Native...

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Elliot Page Says Fans' 'Love and Support' Has Been the 'Greatest Gift' After Coming Out as Transgender "I am trans, my pronouns are he/they and my name is Elliot," Page said in a previous statement

Chicago officials tried to block video of police arresting naked woman in botched raid Efforts by the city of Chicago to keep unflattering video of police from the public has drawn comparisons to the Laquan McDonald coverup.

Anandibai Joshi journeyed from India to the U.S. to pursue a medical school education in 1883. Prior to leaving, she wrote her sponsor, a wealthy woman from New Jersey who over years of correspondence had become akin to family, “You have reason to think that this very distant voyage will be hazardous for a girl of 18 because the world is full of frauds and dangers, but dear Aunt, wherever I cast my glance, I see nothing but a straight and smooth way. I fear no miseries. I shrink not at the recollection of dangers, nor do I fear them.”

This was Anandibai. Fearless. Staunch in the pursuit of her goals. By eighteen she had already overcome much. Married at the age of nine, at fourteen she endured the loss of her child ten days after giving birth. And then she spent much of her late teens in poor health, suffering from a multitude of maladies including weakness and frequent headaches.

But education was important to her. It had been for much of life. Born into a wealthy family, her father went against customs to have his daughter educated and her husband supported Anandibai’s studies as well.

In the U.S., she was admitted to and attended the Women’s Medical College. After graduating in 1886, she traveled back to India in hopes of practicing medicine there. But she became ill shortly after her return, passing away in 1887 from tuberculosis.

Sources:
1. https://www.thetriangle.org/snowball/the-graduates/
2. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/19th-century-lady-doctor-ushered-indian-women-medicine-180964613/
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anandi_Gopal_Joshi
4. Photo taken by Caroline Wells Healey Dall, Drexel University College of Medicine (http://xdl.drexelmed.edu/item.php?object_id=001128) / Wikimedia Commons

The 13 Best Film Performances by Actresses in 2020 This year’s crop of female-fronted performances is deep, from steadfast stars to rising talents.

Rashida Jones to Become First Black Exec To Lead a Major News Network Rashida Jones will be taking over as president of MSNBC, making her the first Black executive to lead one of the major cable news networks

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