After embarking on a journey to find her own birth monther, Kelley Jamison (also known as Aye Yo Kells) vowed to help others connect with their own loving families.

By investing $10 billion in support of Black women, Goldman Sachs will narrow opportunity gaps and contribute to the advancement of racial equity. By reducing barriers to growth for Black women, this will drive economic progress for the U.S. as a whole. The One Million Black Women initiative draws from extensive research demonstrating that Black women are indeed the best financial investment.

Elilott became the first female rapper in history to ever receive an honorary doctorate from the prestigious institution. Berklee called Elliott a “groundbreaking solo superstar, pioneering producer, songwriter, singer, and rapper.”

Last week, four women who had no prior rowing experience before this year, set off to make history as the first Black women, and the first all-Black team, to participate in and complete the Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge, a transatlantic race dubbed “The World’s Toughest Row.”

During the 2018 South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive, Mignott and her team successfully curated a two-day event in 48 hours that featured a lineup of all-women speakers and presenters called YurHouse. The concept was simple: Mignott wanted to know what would happen if you had a conference within SXSW that attracted some of the best female speakers.

It’s important to acknowledge how navigating both race and gender creates additional vulnerabilities for Black women and girls. It’s time to talk about how invisible homelessness, self-imposed curfews in low-income neighborhoods, and normalized aggressive street harassment negatively impact the lives of girls and women.

Claire Karekezi, 35, is currently finishing up her training at Toronto Western Hospital, where she has specialized in brain tumor removal. As of July, she will return to her native country, where she’ll join the other four male neurosurgeons who are currently practicing. “It’s passion, it’s dedication,” she tells the Toronto Star. “It’s not about money — I’m living my dream and I love what I do. “This is something I can do. This is something I can bring back to Rwanda.”

“What occurs to me is that this is just the beginning — a beginning that indicates something has changed in America. One, that women are considered leaders, particularly African-American women, and that Black women are leaders in large cities and small cities are trusted to take care of the overall political apparatus of that community.”