Our bodies are intricate machines: complex, intelligent, and deeply responsive to how we nourish them. For Black women in particular, nutrition and taking the right essential vitamins are crucial ...

July 10 is Black Women's Equal Pay Day, marking how long a Black woman must work into 2025 to earn what a white man made in 2024. That's 19 months of labor a Black woman will have to work for only 12 ...

When it comes to breast cancer in the U.S., the statistics don’t lie and they’re alarming. As we bring honor Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October, we have to explore why Black women are facing a ...

SCRANTON — Elizabeth Mitchko wants to give women their dream hair, even if they struggle to grow it themselves. The 32-year-old longtime stylist at the popular Lavish Scranton salon, spa and boutique ...

Editor’s note: Danette Mitchell’s column appears on Sundays in the print edition of the Vacaville Reporter. Black women and families continue to experience significant health inequities, ranging from ...

RICHMOND, Va. — For years, Toinetta Jones played the dating game by her mom's strict rule. "Mom always told me, 'Don't you ever bring a white man home,' " recalled Jones, echoing an edict issued by ...

According to the American Cancer Society, Black women are more likely to die from cancer than any other group in America. A new nationwide study is working to find out why. The "Voices of Black Women" ...

FILE - New York State Attorney General Letitia James speaks during the New York State Democratic Convention in New York, Feb. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) FILE - New York State Attorney ...

Sometimes, your calling will find you in the most unexpected ways. Just ask Maekaeda Gibbons. As the founder of Brown Sugar Babe, she initially had no intentions of becoming a fragrance mogul (and is, ...

What happens when you begin to suspect that your prescribed birth control is actually trying to kill you? In the case of over 1,300 women in the U.S., they’re taking legal action against a popular ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The coalition of New York NAACP chapters had just begun its annual state convention when Letitia James, a longtime member and the state’s attorney general, canceled her appearance.

The “Angry Black Woman” stereotype is a long-standing, deeply rooted caricature that portrays Black women as overly hostile, aggressive, difficult, irrational, or “too strong” in their emotions. It ...