Casira Copes calls out the colorism of companies that that "value" diversity and inclusion, but publicize and favor light-skinned images.
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Investing influencers who are attracting audiences on the Clubhouse app say bold steps need to be taken to close the wealth gap.
The folk and lore of Rosa Parks does little to complete the picture of the dynamic, skilled and purposeful Civil Rights activist that she was.
"I've done my best" was the final line of Cicely Tyson's 50-year Hollywood reign. On her own terms, the curtains closed with style, honor and grace.
In what became a dying declaration Dr. Susan Moore warned, “I put forth and I maintain: If I was White, I wouldn’t have to go through that.”
"I felt like it was necessary to be seen and to not be a hidden figure...because the level of visibility that it would have to younger scientists and also to people of color."
Rashida Jones is now the most prominent Black woman in the cable news industry.
At 16, Barbara Rose Johns led a student strike and with support filed the largest and only student initiated case consolidated into Brown v. Board of Education.
“Black women decide elections. We can decide we are going to elect Black women up and down the ballot.”
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