On International Women’s Day (8 March), that is the bold call for action for all women and girls worldwide. As we mark the 30th year of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the world is ...

The Government of Canada’s theme for International Women’s Day 2025 is Strength in every story. This year’s theme highlights the importance of amplifying the voices of all women, particularly those ...

Promise. There's a plethora of talent and ingenuity that comes out of the Black community, so if you want your wardrobe (or beauty routine!) to look fresh and trend-setting, these are the ...

The Religious Landscape Study (RLS) – conducted in 2007, 2014 and 2023-24 – surveys more than 35,000 Americans in all 50 states about their religious affiliations, beliefs and practices along with ...

The hotly-anticipated celebrity version of the BBC show, which will see stars going head-to-head in the psychological game is set to start filming in the coming weeks.

As part of our series Race Matters, Ali Rogan sat down with Inger Burnett-Zeigler, author of "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: the Emotional Lives of Black Women," to look at the effects of ...

The truth is that I didn't know much about him. I knew he was a social reformer and spiritualist. At the Backwaters Collective (co-founded among others by social theorist Ashis Nandy and historian ...

Jerry Butler, a premier soul singer of the 1960s and after whose rich, intimate baritone graced such hits as “For Your Precious Love,” “Only the Strong Survive” and “Make It Easy On ...

The son Mississippi sharecroppers, Butler and his family moved moved north to Chicago when he was 3, part of the era’s “Great Migration” of Black people out of the South. He loved all kinds ...

The son Mississippi sharecroppers, Butler and his family moved moved north to Chicago when he was 3, part of the era’s “Great Migration” of Black people out of the South. He loved all kinds of music ...

Jerry Butler co-hosts the Rhythm & Blues Foundation's 13th annual Pioneer Award ceremony at the Manhattan Center, in New York, 2003. - Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images ...