ESSENCE has announced the honorees for its 18th annual ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Awards. The highly anticipated event is set for Thursday, February 27th, during Oscar week, at the Fairmont ...

As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...

As a new generation is discovering Elizabeth Catlett's work, Ron Rumford hopes that her message of empowerment is instilled ...

Words are just part of telling a great story. In the 10 years that we have put out The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Black History Month series, we also paid close attention to how we told these ...

Pioneering British artist Charli XCX and groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar are up against The Beatles; UK singer and Grammys first-timer RAYE is competing with viral stars ...

Los Angeles has hosted the Grammy Awards all but two times out of the last 20 years, usually at the Crypto.com Arena ...

Anna Claire Howland, 21, a junior at Southern Methodist University and Kappa Kappa Gamma member, was prominently featured on ...

Selections from two of Lars Tunbjörk’s famous series “Winter” and “Office” are part of the exhibition at the American Swedish ...

In an excerpt from her darkly humorous new memoir, Wild West Village, the actor and musician reveals how she turns burden ...

As protesters marched in Washington, D.C. against incoming President Donald Trump's second-term agenda, more than 2,500 Black women turned out to see actress Issa Rae for an evening of inspiration and ...

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this ...

Mark, who split from girlfriend Hayley Palmer last year shortly after their first anniversary together, shared a picture smiling alongside Lianne Elizabeth ... He revealed he had athritis on ITV show ...