On the same night Michelle Obama and Kendrick Lamar were celebrated at the 2026 NAACP Image Awards, a reporter for Word In Black quietly made history of her own. Anissa Durham won the inaugural Outstanding Literary Work – Journalism award for “On Borrowed Time."
Who today has ever heard of Rose Meta Morgan? If, thanks to groundbreaking work by Stanley Nelson and A’Lelia Bundles, many are aware of the triumphant, if brief, lives of Madam Walker and her daughter, no biographer has come forward for their successor in the sphere of Black beauty.
Its near-total abortion ban has ripple effects that keep maternal mortality rates among the highest in the nation. by Jennifer Porter Gore - Word In Black Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade almost two years ago, the battle to women’s access to abortion and contraceptive healthcare has moved to the states. Some have…
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Black women in the United States face some of the highest rates of intimate partner violence and lethal abuse. Yet, their experiences are often overlooked in policy debates and national conversations.
When Venita Graves launched her nonprofit Beauty Beyond Breast Cancer in 2010, she wasn’t chasing accolades or entrepreneurship. She was answering a calling.
On this year’s Equal Pay Day, there’s little to celebrate. Although women now earn more than ever have, the gender wage gap persists. And they’re feeling the pain in this current economy and political climate.
Black women remain the backbone of the U.S. labor force — working more, earning less, and bearing burdens across nearly every sector.
April 2025 marked another setback in a long line of economic challenges for Black women in the American workforce.
Their goal was clear and constitutional: conduct oversight of a federally operated immigration detention center that has drawn widespread concern over its conditions and its connection in an alarming rise in unjust arrests, particularly of Black and Brown immigrants.
A lawsuit claims Abundant Birth Project is discriminatory because it grants stipends to Black and Pacific Islander moms in San Francisco.