"Many women have an iron deficiency, and we know that Black women have a twofold higher iron deficiency compared to white women. As many as 50% of all Black women have iron deficiency," he said.

As Women’s History Month comes to an end, I’ve been reflecting on ways to honor Black women. We often see and admire them in ways that are left unspoken or that aren’t amplified nearly ...

The taskforce’s recommendations and legislation led to the creation of the Minnesota Office for Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls in 2023. Kaleena Burkes, the office’s first director ...

The symposium, which ends Wednesday, features several sessions ranging from Black women in the labor force to mental health wellness. Clark Atlanta University is ending Women’s History Month ...

“A single institution didn’t cause my burnout,” Kenney says, “but the cumulative weight of being a Black woman navigating relentless and unique social pressures and stress, while carrying high ...

They say beauty is pain, but it isn’t supposed to be deadly. So why has a new analysis found that 80% of more than 4,000 beauty products marketed towards Black women contain at least one hazardous ...

Telling the story of Black woman’s inability to dress, speak, hell, even think without being policed is like beating a dead horse. Yet, it is still very true in the year of our Lord that is 2025 ...

Across the country, Black women and birthing people are reclaiming what it means to give birth on their own terms. And through informed choices, holistic care, community-rooted support systems ...

The installation, now at the Trinidad History Museum, honors the lives of Black domestic workers — women whose labor and stories were often unrecorded. Duplessis, who is from Louisiana and now ...

Hatchett is not only on a mission to bring awareness to the epidemic that impacts Black women and birthing people at disparate rates, she is relentless in the pursuit to hold medical institutions ...

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Recently, I heard that Jalonda is promoting a new initiative that she is calling Black Women Bike Defense, which entails a Firearm Workshop & Expo at Wincrest Sportsmen, a shooting range that ...