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In Case You Missed It...BGN Podcast 12/15/13 Kayona Ebony Brown from Of Music & Men

Of Music And Men is an American television comedy-drama created by Kayona Ebony Brown that chronicles the life of a young, single, female entrepreneur and her experiences with men as she tries to suc…

"The Best Man Holiday"...Grab the Tissue...

Prepare to break out the tissues for this one, because the floodgates of tears will soon follow… It has been 15 years since The Best Man (1999) debuted on the Hollywood screen and the reunion could n…

Of Music & Men

While many artists, musicians and filmmakers are taking to crowd-funding sites like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo to raise money to produce their independent projects, Washington, DC “artistic entreprene…

The Hour of Code is Coming

Yesterday we joined Code.org to support the Hour of Code. It’s the largest initiative of its kind: a campaign from Code.org to recruit 10 million kids to try computer science for one hour during Com…

Rejection Letters and The Road to Yes.

Maybe I’m just not the next JK Rowling.  Maybe I am doomed to die in obscurity, a penniless author of a dozen self-published books that never circulate much farther than my sphere of influence. Maybe…

The Black Women's Agenda Honors Five Agents Of Change At 36th Annual Symposium & Awards Luncheon

One month after the 50 th  anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s momentous address, The Black Women's Agenda, Inc. (BWA) celebrated five inspirational women …

Life After Teaching Abroad. You have options!

My students In an increasingly global society, there is a great demand / opportunity for U.S. native English speakers to work abroad as language teachers. These positions span the range of ages and s…

Census Bureau Reports Women's Employment in Science, Tech, Engineering and Math Jobs Slowing

Growth in women's share of science, technology, engineering and mathematics occupations – commonly referred to as STEM jobs – has slowed since the 1990s, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report …

FCC Chairman Mignon L. Clyburn Announced as Keynote Speaker at FOCUS100 October 4-6

Who: digitalundivided (DID), a social enterprise that builds forward thinking initiatives that fundamentally change the digital space by increasing the number of urban woman digital entrepreneurs. W…

Tiffany Mack Fitzgerald: Founder of Black Girls Golf

“I’m an occasional blogger, weekly radio host of TiffTalks Radio, founder of Black Girls Golf, and full-time mother sharing what I know about purposeful parenting. Swimming my way through it. When it…

BLACK ENTERPRISE Publishes Exclusive Registry Of African Americans On Corporate Boards

BLACK ENTERPRISE (BE) has released its latest exclusive report on African American representation on the corporate boards of 250 of America's largest publicly traded companies today at BlackEnter…

Putting the Labor Back in Labor Day

Normally when Labor Day comes around I’m thinking about eating apple dumplings and catching some bands at Bumbershoot, Seattle's annual Labor Day music festival but this year I took part in a mov…

The Politics of Splitting Pills: Ambitious Gods Part II

Emergency Rooms and Lack of insurance create a cycle of poverty for the poorest Americans and disparately African Americans.  Last week, when former U.S. Senator and current President of the  Heritag…

Diversifying the Ranks of Cancer Researchers To Help Reduce Cancer Disparities

Somewhere in a research laboratory, an African American woman with a medical degree is helping to solve the mysteries of breast cancer. She is working with colleagues to find out why young African A…
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