Women of Color

Iman Proves That Black Beauty Products Shouldn't Be Pushed To The Back

Michelle Marques | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Ysl, Iman, Bv-Fashion-Beauty, Women of Color, Black Beauty, Natural Hair, African American Beauty, Beauty, Black Voices News

Iman is tired of black beauty products being relegated to the back walls of "ethnic sections" in major retailers. The model and beauty mogul spok...

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Will Subscription Sample Boxes Work for Women of Color?

Karim Orange | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Slidepollajax, Black Beauty Bloggers, Subscription Sample Boxes, Women of Color, Hair-Beauty-Beauty, Black Voices News
Karim Orange

With the success of subscription sampling companies, we are seeing social commerce related businesses popping up all over the web. You can subscribe to get everything delivered monthly to your door from beauty products to baby products and jewelry.

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What if Sandra Fluke were a Woman of Color?

Mary Keck | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Family Planning, Rush Limbaugh, Women of Color, Ron Paul, Sandra Fluke, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Barack Obama, GOP Candidates, Bill Maher, Shirley Sherrod, Racism, Contraception, Newt Gingrich, Blunt Amendment, Healthcare, National Press Club, Bv-Politics, Black Voices News
Mary Keck

In the wake of the Sandra Fluke vs. Rush Limbaugh media frenzy, we've begun to ask some very interesting questions. The queries popping up over the Fluke-Limbaugh controversy has brought a question to my mind: What if Sandra Fluke were a woman of color?

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White Women: The Sponsors Women of Color Must Have in the 21st Century

Trudy Bourgeois | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: White Women, Women, Professional Women, Women of Color, Sponsorship, Sponsor, Women in the Workplace, Affirmative Action, Working Women, Female Executives, Business News
Trudy Bourgeois

Women simply must learn how to support other women across ALL ethnicities. This is THE way we WILL raise a collective voice of demand for eliminating the glass ceiling once and for all.

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"How To" Beauty Tutorial: Applying Foundation on a Deep Skin Tone

Eve Pearl | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Makeup Tips, African American Makeup, Hyperpigmentation, Women of Color, Concealer, Foundation, Makeup Tutorial, Makeup, Style News
Eve Pearl

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Women in Corporate America

Christine Bork | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Catalyst Study, Women of Color, Ceos, Senior Leadership Positions, Promotion, Glass Ceiling, Human Resources, Women in Business, Job Training, Women Executives, African American Women, Chicago News
Christine Bork

Although women are making inroads in management positions, they have been unable to reach the heights of men with similar education and experience. Why aren't women advancing to senior leadership positions?

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Anti-Abortion Billboards Demonstrate Ignorance of problems facing Black community

Christine Bork | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Englewood Chicago, Child Poverty, Cycle of Poverty, Women of Color, Chicago Anti-Abortion Billboard, Abortion Rights, Systemic Racism, Chicago News
Christine Bork

These billboards recklessly imply that women of color are simple, one-dimensional, misguided and incapable of intelligent choices related to their own bodies, families and communities.

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Amid Pressure, NYC Anti-Choice Billboard Targeting Black Women and Communities Comes Down

C. Nicole Mason | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Life Always, Abortion, Women, Single Mothers, Welfare Reform, Women of Color, Single Motherhood, Anti-Choice, Pro-Choice, Black History Month, New York News
C. Nicole Mason

This billboard is only one of the many attacks on reproductive freedom and services for low-income women across the country. We must remain vigilant.

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Missing: Women of Color in the Abortion Debate

Silvia Henriquez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Reproductive Health, Latinas, Women of Color, Politics News
Silvia Henriquez

While all women would face additional financial barriers accessing abortion care, women living day-to-day, many of whom are women of color, suffer disproportional impact from attacks on access to reproductive healthcare.

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Women of Color Greatly Misrepresented on Daytime TV

Victoria Rowell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Minority Women, African American Women, Minority Women Tv, Soap Operas, Daytime TV, Women of Color, Entertainment News
Victoria Rowell

Though there are more minority women onscreen than ever before, they often fall into "specialty-act" roles or negative stereotypes, lessening their power in Hollywood as well as their worth in the industry.

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Health Care Passed, Now What About "Wealth" Care?

Ella L. J. Edmondson Bell, Ph.D | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Women of Color, Wealth Gap, Hispanic Women, Black Women, Personal Finances, Women's Issues, Money, Single Mothers, Race, Financial Crisis, Gender Descrimination, Discrimination, Healthy Living News
Ella L. J. Edmondson Bell, Ph.D

The bottom line is the majority of women of color in this country are living paycheck to paycheck with no safety net. Most black and Hispanic women are one check stub away from financial disaster.

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This Bridge Called My Back: A Retro Look at Women of Color and Power

Nisha Agarwal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women, Women of Color, Gender, Feminzation of Poverty, Race, Latina, Poverty, Economy, Politics News
Nisha Agarwal

The foot soldiers of our modern-day civil rights movement are women of color, just as they were a generation ago, when women outnumbered men two-to-one in the local organizations feeding the Mississippi freedom struggle.

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Be Your Own First Lady

Chelsea-Lyn Rudder | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Women, Michelle Obama, Michelle Obama First Lady, Women of Color, Women and Politics, Role Models, Washington D.C., Self-Esteem, Michelle Obama Style, Healthy Living News
Chelsea-Lyn Rudder

A year ago Michelle Obama's detractor's attempted to pigeon hole her into the caricature of "the angry black woman." Today, she is an American icon who is admired around the world.

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Sotomayor Racist?

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Newspaper Columnists, Women, Supreme Court Justices, Latinos, Politicians, Women of Color, Latinas, Racist, Obama, American Sociological Association, Prejudice, Race, Employment Discrimination, Clarence Thomas, Barack Obama, Gender, Patricia Hill Collins, Talk Radio, Conservatives, Editorials, Race for the American Dream, American Dream, Sex, Sonia Sotomayor, Conservative Talk Radio, Racism, Sotomayor, Wage Gap, Discrimination, Obama Supreme Court Nominee, Poverty Rate, Inequality, Histpanics, Politics News
Abby L. Ferber

The fact that these conservative politicians and commentators don't even see racism unless they feel it is directed against them is precisely why we need the voices of women of color on the court.

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New Health Disparities Report: More Context for Higher Unintended Pregnancy and Abortion Rates Among Women of Color

Sharon L. Camp | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Contraception, Women of Color, Health Disparities, Guttmacher Institute, Iud, Women's Health, Health, Racism, Birth Control, Politics News
Sharon L. Camp

A Kaiser Family Foundation report documents persistent disparities between white women and women of color in rates of diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, AIDS and cancer.

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Women of Color in an Obama Era

Tara L. Conley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poverty, Susan Rice, Women of Color, Economy, Janet Napolitano, Brave New Films, Tara L Conley, Hillary Clinton, Race, Barack Obama, Working Class, Women of Color Policy Network, Gender, Politics News
Tara L. Conley

I can't help but wonder how Obama's power as President will address the myriad of low wage-(or no wage)-earning, care-taking, health-insurance-lacking, poverty-stricken women of color in the US.

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