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“I’m the founder of Topicals and the launch of my new brand ‘Bread’ flopped,” read one of Olamide Olowe’s latest TikTok videos with over 100,000 likes. In April of last year, the founder announced her new holding company Cost Of Doing Business (CODB) with haircare brand Bread Beauty Supply as their …
Marjane Satrapi, best known for her memoir and film Persepolis , has died, aged 56. The death of this much loved Iranian French artist, graphic novelist, filmmaker and activist has been met with widespread celebration of her life—and its dedication to resistance, freedom and humanity.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held on a 2-1 vote last week that unconstitutional “animus-filled reasons” motivated the Trump administration’s policy barring transgender people from the military.
Nakia Holmes — the Houston entrepreneur who helped build one of Black food culture’s most iconic brands from a parking lot hustle into a celebrity-magnet empire — let six words do the talking: “ Pull up hungry. We’re serving until it’s gone.
The current Ebola outbreak in East Africa represents a critical test of the America First approach to global health security—and it is already failing. The post We Are Not Ready for the Next Pandemic appeared first on Ms. Magazine .
Ted Lasso returns for its fourth season on Aug. 5. When the trailer for the new season dropped earlier this year, one moment landed harder than the rest. On his way to practice, Ted runs into his old nemesis, Mr.
When I first began reporting on incarcerated women, I was fascinated by studies that showed that showed that upwards of 70 percent of women in jails and prisons were subjected to intimate partner violence before they were incarcerated.
The Supreme Court on Monday morning turned down, without comment, an appeal by an elementary school student who was barred from wearing a baseball cap with a picture of an AR-15 and the words “Come and Take It” to school.
Tucked in New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s sprawling universal childcare plan is a little-talked-about milestone: In September, the city will open what appears to be the first free daycare for municipal workers in the country.
Click to expand Image A client waits to be seen by a doctor during an HIV clinic day at TASO Mulago service center in Kampala, Uganda, February 17, 2025. © 2025 Hajarah Nalwadda/Getty Images <p>(Washington, DC) – The United States government is conditioning lifesaving health assistance on broad…
Click to expand Image A teacher speaks to students during a lesson at a public school in São Paulo, Brazil on October 18, 2021. © 2021 Patricia Monteiro/Bloomberg via Getty Images <p>A new UNESCO report illustrates how education can empower children and their communities to access their human …
Supporters of same-sex marriage breathed a sigh of relief when the Roberts court denied review last year in Davis v. Ermold , a case in which a county clerk in Kentucky, Kimberly Jean Davis, challenged Obergefell v.
The increasing costs of fuel for cars and airplanes are adding extra strain to abortion funds that help people pay to travel for care in other states, leaders of several funds said this week. Abortion funds can help when someone must travel from their home state to a state where care is available.
This brief provides an update on Planned Parenthood closures and participation in the Title X program in the midst of substantial policy changes leading to decreased funding for Planned Parenthood including the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the withholding of federal Title X funding to Planned Pare…
It’s hard to put into words what Earth, Wind & Fire means to me. I was first introduced to their music on a rainy Saturday morning in New Orleans—I was helping my mother rearrange some of the old vinyl records that sat in our living room.
It was a balmy August morning in Lancashire, a county in North West England known for its sweeping landscapes and greenery. But back in 2014, their idyllic community was facing an outside threat: Cuadrilla, an oil and gas giant and the only company in the United Kingdom with a license to frack, was …
My latest book Milk Factory is the first visual study of America’s lactation rooms. Photographing spaces where mothers pump—disparate sites such as a prison, corporate offices, a farm laborer’s tent, schools, an airport and the U.S. Capitol—I reveal the hidden architecture of care.
By Akili King · Updated June 7, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… Kerry Washington could teach a masterclass in effortlessness if she wanted to. She oozes this energy with all things she touches—be it her roles in hit shows like Scandal or with her sophisticated-yet-playful >her r…
Men and women can be platonic friends , but sometimes, they’re just destined to be more. When Ava and Cedric met at D-Nice’s Club Quarantine event post-pandemic, their connection initially seemed more like a networking opportunity than anything else.
Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S.
Photo Credit: John Nacion By Okla Jones · Updated June 5, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… While there have been several stars that have entered the WNBA during its 30-year lifespan, Cynthia Cooper was hands-down its first.
By India Espy-Jones · Updated June 5, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… What do you gift a father who says they don’t need anything? With Father’s Day just over two weeks away, finding a gift for yours may feel like cracking a code. But, it doesn’t have to.
At first glance, Natalie Heller Mills has everything the tradwife internet promises: a beautiful home, a growing family and a devoted audience eager to consume her carefully curated vision of traditional womanhood.
As Republicans create ever higher barriers to abortion that push abortion seekers later into pregnancy, U.S.-based activists are learning from Latin American feminists who have developed protocols to make second-trimester medication abortion easier and safer.
Last week, multiple outlets reported that the Justice Department would be opening a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the 82-year-old iconic journalist who successfully sued Donald Trump—twice.
Each week, Rewire News Group editors scour headlines nationwide—from lawsuits over abortion access to LGBTQ+ rights—to bring you the most urgent news in reproductive justice. Here’s this week’s latest. Mifepristone “review” was pushed by anti-abortion groups The Food and Drug Administration will pro…
This story was produced with the support of the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) as part of its Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice in the Americas Initiative. Wearing a green gown, Yara lay drowsy in a hospital bed in Fortaleza, in the northeastern Brazilian state of Ceará.
North Dakota state Rep. Eric Murphy at home planning a day of canvassing in his Grand Forks district. Murphy, an incumbent Republican, faces a contested primary election from conservative challengers after he introduced a bill to expand abortion access last year.
When South Carolina’s abortion abolitionist bill, the Unborn Child Protection Act (S. 1095), was voted out of committee and onto the full Senate floor in late April—“an unprecedented move toward locking up women who have an abortion,” according to Dana Sussman in Slate —it raised a question: How muc…
“What's notable is that it doesn't address the substance of what the woman is saying."
When the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) unveiled the first wave of celebrity promotions for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the messaging was familiar: unity, celebration and global connection through sport.
Thomas Concordi/Getty Images By ESSENCE Editors · Updated June 4, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… It’s the 10 year anniversary of Normal Culture at Miami Swim Week and founder Jela Lanier is taking a moment to reflect on a journey that began with just a few products and a vision…
By India Espy-Jones · Updated June 4, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… In the words of Golloria : “A bronzerrr!?” With less than a month until the hottest season of the year, she’s right.
When I first watched Curry Barker’s Obsession , I assumed the horror was obvious. Not the supernatural curse at the center of the film but the decision that sets it in motion: a man deciding he is entitled to a woman’s love, to a woman’s body, regardless of her consent.
By India Espy-Jones · Updated June 4, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… Raised by her father, hairstylist Fesa Nu learned earlier than most how to do her own hair. “I spent plenty of hours practicing on myself,” she tells ESSENCE.
It’s a Thursday in June, and seasoned Supreme Court watchers likely know what that means: We’re expecting opinions this morning. Our opinion day live blog begins at 9:30 a.m. EDT. At the Court After the possible announcement of opinions this morning, the justices will meet in a private conference to…
In April 2026, Dr. Cerina Wanzer Fairfax was shot and killed by her husband while their divorce was pending. She had done what she was supposed to do. She had initiated the legal process to leave Justin Fairfax, the former lieutenant governor of Virginia. It didn’t save her.
A rural area off Highway 14 just north of the small town of Moorcroft, in eastern Wyoming They were pillars of their church, congregants in a little-known denomination that sets itself apart from the world and teaches that even the most unconscionable acts can be wiped away — not just forgiven, but …
By Akili King · Updated June 3, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… It’s a great day to be a Knicks fan. Why? Playing against the Spurs, the NYC basketball team will be heading into Game 1 of the 2026 NBA Finals tonight.
Qualitative research reveals emerging insights about the gap between dominant narratives and the stories Black women want and need to see NATIONWIDE — Today, In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda released new qualitative research introducing Narrative Demand™ , an emer…
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