Simone Biles Redefining Black Excellence
By Madison Meeks It is no secret that Simone Biles is in a league of her own. At twenty-four years old, she already has four gymnastics...
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Moyomade Aladesuyi
- Oct 11, 2022
Not a Boy’s Girl | Cementing Friendships with Women in Your 20s
Human beings are social animals who naturally try to find groups of people with similar tastes or beliefs. It’s not unusual for women to...
Haile Cole
- Jun 24, 2022
We Outside: A Photo Essay
After lockdown and restriction brought on by the global health pandemic, the idea of being “outside” renders an air of newfound freedom...
LaTanya Lane
- Jun 22, 2022
Pride, Prejudice and🔥🔥🔥
When I was little, my mom would take us to the Newport News Public Library on Saturdays and make a bee line for the video section. Most...
Perdita Patrice
- Jun 9, 2022
We Ain’t Afraid of No "Ghosts"
I just finished a full re-watching of "Criminal Minds"–I blame TikTok users for posting clips of the show, which reminded me that, oh...
Madison Meeks
- Jun 6, 2022
Is the WNBA is in Crisis?
Almost every time I click on my “explore” page on Instagram, I see a post telling me that yet another WNBA team has either waived a...
LaTanya Lane
- May 11, 2022
Welcome to May
May Inspiration Collage by Sarah Hairston So much of growing up is learning to parent ourselves – to soothe our own aches and pains, to...
Perdita Patrice
- Apr 19, 2022
A Quick Way to Add Luxury to Any Bathroom
Photo by Renee Verberne on Unsplash Over the past two years many of us have spent more time exploring our homes and thinking about how we...
Perdita Patrice
- Apr 12, 2022
How I Paid Down Almost $40,000 of Debt
Photo by Ivan Samkov I just finished adding up all the payments I have been making on miscellaneous debt – loans, credit cards,...
The Lighthouse
- Mar 18, 2022
The legacy of Unita Blackwell lives on in Mississippi and Beyond
Mayor Unita Blackwell was Mississippi’s first Black female mayor, and she represents a generational effort by Black Mississippians to...
Jeanette Miller
- Mar 16, 2022
Young Black Artists, Experiencing Art
The young women at Septima Clark Academy have been learning about art and putting that learning into practice. The past few weeks have...
Natalie A. Collier
- Mar 3, 2022
Welcome to March
Artwork Created by Sarah Jene During a recent interview, the host of the radio show I was a guest on asked me about the women who’d...
Perdita Patrice
- Feb 21, 2022
Heaux Tales, Mo’ Tales: The Deluxe
Jazmine Sullivan’s highly anticipated, “Heaux Tales, Mo’ Tales: The Deluxe” album was released February 11. Earlier this month,...
Perdita Patrice
- Feb 14, 2022
A Tradition Worth Passing On
Often, the first people who show us love are our relatives. Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins changing our diapers,...
Jessiree Jenkins
- Feb 10, 2022
Revisiting “Heaux Tales” before the Deluxe Edition
In 2021, Jazmine Sullivan dropped her new album “Heaux Tales” and set the internet on fire. Her last project had been “Reality Show” in...
Perdita Patrice
- Feb 7, 2022
Four Hours Later, and Janet Jackson Remains an Enigma
The A&E and Lifetime documentary, Janet Jackson., aired January 28. The two-night, four-hour event promised to reveal more about...
Natalie A. Collier
- Feb 1, 2022
Welcome to February
Credit: Djavan Rodriguez In December of 2021 we lost bell hooks, a giant thinker adept at identifying the inconsistencies of everyday...
Aaron Talley
- Dec 10, 2021
Lotus
There was a woman born from a Lotus Her heart was golden, deep as the ocean And then this one man, he came and broke it ‘Til it was open,...
Adam Lynch
- Nov 17, 2021
Black Writers Are Writing, but Black Books Still Rare
November is National Novel Writing Month and to celebrate Black Girl Times wants to shine a light on hard-working Black authors and the...
Jeanette Miller
- Nov 11, 2021
Black Artists, Black Art | Nov 2021
What are you grateful for? I have so much gratitude for all the wonderful expressions of self, challenge, passion, hurt, love, and so...
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