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After a 10-day cycle of recording the images they viewed on the Internet, television and other media, the black women in the Essence report — which was conducted by the research firm Cheskin ...
- Amber Scott
- Angela Rye
- April Ryan
- Ava Duvernay
- Ayanna Howard
- Carla Williams
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Hadiyah-Nicole Green
- Janet Mock
- Joy Buolamwini
Recognizing the power of education to lift families out of poverty, she founded Leap Year, an Atlanta-based nonprofit with the mission of helping low-income and first-generation college students succeed. As executive director, she oversees the program—which had three fellows in its pilot year and four in its current cohort—which puts high school gr...
She’s built a career of putting her law degree to work for social change through legislative advocacy, having handled legislative affairs for HBCU umbrella organization NAFEO and the Congressional Black Caucus. She’s also the principal and CEO of political advocacy firm IMPACT Strategies, though she’s probably best known to audiences at home for he...
A veteran journalist, the White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks and a political analyst for CNN has been covering the U.S. presidency for 21 years, since the Clinton administration. The National Association of Black Journalists 2017 “Journalist of the Year,” she’s the only black woman reporting on urban issues from the White H...
Working to reshape Hollywood from behind the camera, this director founded a film collective dedicated to independent women and minority filmmakers and just partnered with Los Angeles on a $500,000 diversity initiative. She’s making history with her film as well, as the first black woman to win the directing award at Sundance, the first to be nomin...
She’s pushing innovation in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer vision, and robotics, for applications that span from melting ice in Antarctica to missions to Mars. After spending 12 years at NASA as a senior robotics researcher, she’s now the chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. She also founded Zyrobotics L.L....
She was named the athletic director of the University of Virginia last fall, breaking barriers in sports as the first African American woman ever to lead the athletic department at any of the NCAA’s Power Five conferences—and shining a positive light on Charlottesville, Virginia, after last year’s racial unrest. A former student-athlete and assista...
The award-winning Nigerian author is changing the conversation about feminism, especially as it relates to African women. Her 2012 TED talk “We Should All Be Feminists,” was later turned into a book (and some Beyoncé lyrics), and her most recent book,Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions,continues her exploration of the subj...
After losing both the aunt and uncle who raised her to cancer, she’s working to change the way the disease is treated and reduce the suffering of patients by making care more accessible, affordable, and effective. The physicist, who specializes in targeted cancer therapeutics, was awarded a $1.1 million grant in 2016 to develop her patent-pending p...
This transgender advocate uses her platform and the skills she’s cultivated as a journalist to bring marginalized stories to the forefront. She has written two memoirs about her own experience; her first, a best-seller, was the first biography from the perspective of a young trans person. And she started the hashtag #GirlsLikeUs to foster a sense o...
A self-proclaimed Poet of Code, this tech activist is fighting her battles on a field many of us don’t even understand: algorithmic bias. The founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, who researches social impact technology at the MIT Media Lab, is working to make sure the technologies that power our world, such as facial recognition software and ...
- Alisa Gumbs
Sep 17, 2021 · News Story Supporting Images and Text. Used in the Home Page News Listing and for the News Rollup Page. Charise Lewis researches the characterization of Black women across major streaming services. 9/17/2021. No. Page Settings and MetaData: (Not Shown on the Page) Page Settings. Portrayals of Black women.
The photography and art of black women in the 1960s and 1970s created a new space of recognition. These images of black women presented an opportunity to both celebrate and immortalize their contributions while making clear the necessity of black women’s voices to movements for equality. As you walk up the ramp to the Museum’s exhibition, A ...
Mar 2, 2021 · The report found that Black women and girls represented only 3.7% of leads or co-leads in the 100 top-grossing films of the last decade, although the numbers have improved in recent years. Only 19 ...
- Tom Tapp
Feb 12, 2015 · Negative imagery of black women appears twice as often as positive depictions, Essence reported in 2013. The magazine interviewed more than 1,200 people, who recalled a barrage of shallow ...
May 18, 2022 · Aria S. Halliday/University of Illinois books. “Arguably, Black women have influenced every aspect of popular culture since they were brought over on slave ships,” explains Halliday. “Black ...
