Time Inc.’s (NYSE:TIME) Essence, the preeminent brand for African-American women, will host its highly anticipated 8th annual “Black Women in Music”—an official GRAMMY® Week event—on Thursday, February 9, in Los Angeles. The invitation-only soiree will salute the year’s extraordinary GRAMMY …

The Martin Luther King Day Block also includes Muhammad Ali on THE SONNY & CHER SHOW, Redd Foxx & LaBelle on CHER, and an IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT Marathon

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, a 96-year-old women's service organization, inducted Dr. Anita Hill, Esq., Cynthia James, and Rhona Bennett as honorary members on Saturday, Jan. 7. A reception in their honor was held following their induction, which occurred during …

Harry Belafonte, who championed social equality and brought global awareness to the plight of the African people, has accepted an invitation from the Brilliant Lecture Series and Scott Brogan, its Founding Director, to appear in Houston. The ground-breaking artist, humanitarian …

NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps is set to become the first African-American crewmember on the International Space Station when she flies to space next year, the space agency announced Wednesday.

Birth of a Movement, a documentary about African-American newspaper editor William Monroe Trotter‘s 1915 battle against America’s first blockbuster movie – D.W. Griffith‘s infamous The Birth of a Nation – will have its broadcast premiere Feb 6, 2017 on Independent …

On Thursday morning, Viola Davis received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, making her the first to receive that honor in the year 2017.

Mayor Sylvester Turner, the City of Houston’s Solid Waste Management Department (SWMD); the Houston Parks and Recreation Department; Reliant, an NRG Company, and Living Earth will participate in a press conference to commemorate the cutting down and mulching of the …

20th Century Fox has released three New Character Posters for Hidden Figures to celebrate the film’s wide release this Friday! These 1960’s inspired character posters feature Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe starring as Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy …

Tuesday, Janet Jackson and husband Wissam Al Mana welcomed their first child, reports People.

For Black Girls celebrates the beauty of Black girls and women as they relaunch this month. Ruby L. Taylor, M.S.W., founder of of the movement and alumna of Howard University, saw a need to empower young women and consulted with …

Snap Weave allows women to create a full hairstyle of any length or texture in minutes – with no glue, needles, or installation tools!

For the ninth year in a row, respondents to a Gallup poll ranked President Barack Obama as the most admired man in America.

Dollmaker American Girl named its “Girl of the Year” Friday, revealing a new African-American doll named Gabriela McBride. She’s the first Girl of the Year doll since 2011 who wasn’t white. American Girl, a Mattel-owned company, sells the popular — …