The days of the stereotypical image of a large man in hard hat and bright yellow vest working on a construction site are over. These days, women, especially black women, are tackling the typically male dominated field and finding success. “When we first started [recruiting female students], we had to pull teeth to get them [...]

If you go to Kenya, you may find that beer is the dominant drink choice for most of the population. But according to Bloomberg Businessweek, Diageo Plc, the world’s biggest distiller, is implementing a new campaign ad to bring women drinkers away from the beer and to their new product Snapp. Their ads feature the [...]

Kenya native Isis Nyong’o heads mobile company InMobi’s Africa operations.

If you think there are not enough hours in the day, you’re wrong; there are enough hours in the day, but perhaps you’re sleeping through them.

But before the natural hair videos and the blogs, these women were leading the way in the natural hair realm.

Seventeen-year-old Jeffrey Warren was determined to secure money for college. His father told him to apply for every applicant scholarship and he applied to 27, winning two $2,000 awards and another $500 award. But when his school, Martin Luther King High School, announced he’d won a $1,000 award from the Martin Luther King Senior Citizens [...]

Everybody knows the perils of credit card scams that try to lure young college students into debt on campus. But what you might not know is that many colleges are also in on the scams. According to the Associated Press, there are as many as 900 colleges opting to use credit card companies to handle [...]

A study shows that 76 percent of the average shopper’s purchase decisions are made in the store.

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This woman sued for sexual harassment but still continues to work at the same firm.