The UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), and domestic violence service providers collaborated on a new study examining the ongoing trauma impacting survivors of domestic violence (DV) and their children in the Antelope Valley (AV).
UNMET founder Mikayla Rodriguez brings back her visionary arts exhibition for a second year,
Koshie Mills, founder of The Diaspora Dialogues, a multimedia platform connecting Black communities globally, is set to honor Black women from the African diaspora through her Heirs of Afrika Awards.
To dream is to resist. For poet, writer, and publisher Camari Carter Hawkins, dreaming is more than personal ambition—it’s a form of survival.
Within our country, there is a pattern of health factors and terms that are often used when explaining the lifestyle that many people of color have to endure. However, it is extremely difficult to fully understand the amount of health issues that women, especially women of color, potentially face.
The Senate has the potential for history-making this fall, with not one, but two, Black women possibly elected to the chamber, a situation never seen in America since Congress was created more than 200 years ago.
With July recognized as National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, Kaiser Permanente is raising awareness about mental health issues facing underrepresented groups, including the Black community, and the importance of seeking timely treatment when needed.
Women are 2 to 3 times more likely to be diagnosed with lupus than men and lupus is most prevalent among women of color.
Summaries of important news occurring over the past week throughout the state.
When I was told that Councilmember Kevin de León was involved with the square dedication for Willis O. Tyler, the Black attorney who won the landmark case that made adding racial covenants to block Black people from living in white neighborhoods in California illegal, the irony wasn’t lost on me.
Pro-public service legislation introduced by Assemblymember Tina McKinnor’s (D-Inglewood), Assembly Bill (AB) 1, moved closer to becoming law when it was passed by the Assembly with a 66-3 vote in late last Month. It is now under consideration in the Senate.
By Denver Mackey Contributing Writer Cassandra Nickerson, founder of Get Fit with Britt-Nick Organization, and Janeshia Robinson, co-founder of the Annual Women’s Trinity Retreat, hosted their 12th annual retreat, “Glow Up” in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Get Fit with Britt-Nick is a growing health and fitness organization, dedicated to helping women of color develop the nutrition and fitness tools necessary to create a positive health legacy in their homes and communities. Being mentally and physically fit should be goal of every human being. However, sometimes lack of information, cultural influences and plain old bad habits, prevent us from living that reality.
Public Health recognizes community partners’ efforts to support women, mothers, and girls in communities disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.
On Friday April 14th, Coro hosted their annual Women’s in Leadership Luncheon at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, California.
Black women are being exploited, again. Currently, there is a social media trend of men pulling wigs off of the heads of Black women in public— “as a prank.” After the wig is either purposely blown off with a leaf blower or snatched off, these non-Black men run away, hide, or deny that they did it. Basic human rights such as personal space and respect are being denied.