In America, Black women represent 7.8% of the population, yet Black women are less than 5% of officeholders elected to statewide executive offices, Congress, and state legislatures. While Kamala Harris became the first Black woman vice president, the fact is just 17 Black women have ever held statewide elected executive…

This week the United States Mint began shipping the Maya Angelou quarter, which makes her the first Black woman on a coin. The Mint will issue five quarters a year to honor women in fields including women’s suffrage, civil rights, abolition, government, humanities, science, and the arts. Democratic Senator Catherine…

Ending a year causes us to think about all the things that we did not accomplish or complete. I recently was having a heart-to-heart conversation with a dear friend, and she said that she hoped to be more like me and complete things that she would start. I had to…

I believe we all have experienced hearing or using “four-letter words”. These are words that if our parents or grandparents heard us say we would get our mouths washed out with soap. Four-letter words refer to a set of English-language words which are considered profane. When we hear these…

I once read that we will be the same person in five years as we are today except for the people we meet and the books we read. Interestingly enough about five years ago I met a young man named Jesse, I met him through his girlfriend (soon to become…

The city of angles has truly lost one of its loveliest and most divine angels. Jacqueline Avant, a philanthropist and the wife of music icon Clarence Avant was fatally shot in her home. At this time the Beverly Hills police would not speculate on whether Ms. Avant had been shot…

Being cooped up inside for the past couple of years many of us have been experiencing cabin fever and we cannot wait to get out. With the holidays knocking at our door, traveling is something that many of us are contemplating. For some traveling may be packing up the family…

Did George Floyd’s last gasps for air breathe new life into Black organizations, Black businesses, and the Black experience or did the knee on his neck traumatize a nation into a knee-jerk mea culpa? Without a doubt, those moments in Minneapolis created a global movement that had a rippling effect…

Although former Secretary of State Colin Powell told Bob Woodward, in a final interview, “don’t feel sorry for me,” as he shared some of his health challenges, I cannot help but feel both sorry and sad about his passing. Colin Powell died at the age of 84 from complications due…