“The Black girl writing world is especially small and the Black queer girl writing world is even smaller,” noted acclaimed writer Jacqueline Woodson, who told the Times “Shakin’ the Mess ...

She believes the genre is well-suited to telling Black stories, so much so that she used a quote from the author and horror noir expert Tananarive Due as the epigraph for “The Other Black Girl ...

It's a bike ride that's more than a workout. Meet the Philadelphia therapist behind a movement bringing Black women together, ...

Offices can be a scary place − especially this one. “The Other Black Girl,” a new Hulu series (now streaming) based on the 2021 suspense novel by Zakiya Dalila Harris, centers on editorial ...

Aliyah Bah is helping Black girls reclaim the alternative fashion space. Wulf Bradley/The New York Times/Redux. ... At the time of writing, on TikTok, #blackalt has almost 170 million views.

Cristina Mancini heads up Black Girls Code during a precarious time for POC and women in the industry. Credit: Courtesy Black Girls Code BGC's mission is to increase those numbers by partnering ...

This Pride Month, I’m finally reckoning with how bias, patriarchy, and pain shaped what I believed about queer people, and ...

Feona Sharhran Huff's book encourages African American girls to boldly and unapologetically love the skin that they are in. ... What she created immediately inspired Feona to begin writing.

As the pen behind the comedic films Girls Trip, Little and BET+’s First Wives Club, Tracy Oliver is currently one of the primary screenwriters and producers opening doors for Black women in ...

Pioneering writer Octavia Butler on writing Black people and women into sci-fi Butler's 1979 book, Kindred, is now a series for FX on Hulu.In 1993, the pioneering author, who died in 2006, told ...

Black women recorded famous rock 'n' rolls songs but few remember their names NPR's Daniel Estrin talks to Emily Sieu Liebowitz and Laura Flam, the authors of But Will You Love Me Tomorrow.

I will keep writing stories about black girls and women but I want to expand the scope and depth of my work. I’ve actually written two-and-a-half different novels since writing Nightcrawling, ...