Alabama athletics has its fair share of unsung heroes. For the Crimson Tide women’s basketball team, that’s assistant coach Janese Constantine. Constantine has been an integral part of the success of the team under head coach Kristy Curry. Features and Experiences...
“There are also women I have never met but who are recorded in the pages of history and whose lives and struggles inspire me and thousands of other working women to keep putting one foot in front of another every day.” – Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Judge Ketanji...
Intro: Sorting through the countless files in the Google drive, I began logging and transcribing each of the audio files in the folder. It was the first week of my fellowship with United Women of Color – a nonprofit dedicated to community-based solutions for...
The journey of becoming a transgender or gender non-conforming individual is difficult, especially for Black individuals. For many that have transitioned, what they knew about transgender or gender non-conforming people along with how they were viewed by society...
Picture yourself walking into a Black-owned beauty salon in the mid-2000s. The smell of Blue Magic grease and hot combs are a welcoming scent. You sit in the waiting area, thinking about how sore your scalp may be after this. Then you picture your freshly done hair...
The creation and cultivation of Black culture is one of the most compelling stories of our beauty and resilience in the modern world. An integral piece of this story is the storyteller. Black media has evolved over years while keeping one centralized goal in mind:...
“The time for a Negro magazine, the time for a Negro Digest or an Ebony or JET, had come and nothing could stop it if-and it’s a big if – the idea could find a man or a woman who willing to do anything or almost anything, to make the time come.” -John H. Johnson John...
Ebony Magazine was founded by the late John H. Johnson in 1945. Johnson, a prominent Black entrepreneur, developed Ebony with the intent for the publication to be modeled after Life magazine, but for a Black audience. Under his company, Johnson Publishing, he...
“I know what I have to do, and I’m going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I’ll come out a winner, and it doesn’t matter what anyone else does.” – Florence Griffith Joyner Florence Griffith Joyner aka Flo-Jo is one of my inspirations for more reasons than...
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama Who better exemplifies being “the change that we seek” than the very first Black president of...
