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Regina Gwynn (born in 1979) is an African American tech entrepreneur, and co-founder of Black Women Talk Tech, as well as CEO of TresseNoire. [1] Black Women Talk Tech (BWTT) is a collective that helps women of color entrepreneurs finance and build tech companies.
Based in London, Black Womantalk was "set up in 1983 by a group of unemployed Black women of African and Asian descent who felt strongly about creating the space and the means for our voices to be heard." [2] Originally there were eight members, including Olivette Cole Wilson and Bernardine Evaristo. By 1989 there were three members: Cole ...
[12] [13] An assertion made by Nabongo of being the first Black woman to visit every country was also disputed by Woni Spotts, an African-American woman who completed her own full country count in 2018. [3] [14] [15] Nabongo founded a travel agency called Jet Black, which created itineraries for small group trips to Africa.
Four years ago, a Zoom meeting to build support for Kamala Harris as the Democratic vice presidential nominee attracted just 90 participants. On Sunday night, an estimated 90,000 Black women and ...
Jezebel was launched on May 21, 2007, as the 14th Gawker Media blog. [5] According to founding editor Anna Holmes, who had previously worked at Glamour, Star, [1] and InStyle, [6] the site stemmed from the desire to better serve Gawker.com's female readers, who made up 70% of the site's readership at the time.
Ijeoma Oluo (/ i ˈ dʒ oʊ m ə oʊ ˈ l uː oʊ /; born 1980) is an American writer.She is the author of So You Want to Talk About Race [10] and has written for The Guardian, Jezebel, The Stranger, Medium, and The Establishment, where she was also an editor-at-large.
Carefree Black Girls is a cultural concept and movement that aims to increase the breadth of "alternative" representations of black women. [1] [2] The origins of this expression can be traced to both Twitter and Tumblr. [3] Zeba Blay was reportedly the first person to use the expression as a hashtag on Twitter in May 2013.
More Black people died in traffic deaths in 2020 than any other racial group even though Americans drove less in the pandemic. Experts say this is not new.