Get excited because Michelle Obama just published her memoir Becoming! The book touches on her childhood, meeting and falling in love with Barack Obama, what it was like to work on his political campaigns, the ...
We’re loving Christine Michel Carter’s article on why she’s teaching her young daughter to feel like the queen that she is. Even though your mom or grandma likely said some version of, ‘stay out of ...
This month, Upspoken women got together and held a Higher Heights Sister to Sister breakfast to talk about our political power and the challenges facing our community including job insecurity, the wealth gap, mental health, ...
Upspoken is counting down to Halloween and we’re taking one for the team because we are tired of people making our culture their costume. So here is a PSA including a list called “What You ...
We know these past few weeks have been triggering. We are hurting too. We witnessed yet another woman’s trauma and suffering dismissed in preference for a white man’s word and it is devastating that women’s ...
Fall NYFW 2018 has just wrapped. And while it bears celebrating that Rihanna’s Fenty x Savage fashion line had an entire line-up of ethnically diverse models of all hues, sizes, shapes and Virgil Abloh was ...
We can’t get enough of poet, model, memoirist, and general life inspiration Yrsa Daley-Ward. Her honest poetry and transparency on social media motivate us to fearlessly share our struggles and true identities with the people ...
We can all use some advice on how to be kind to ourselves when things get crazy, so we tuned in to watch Lauren Ash and Millana Snow dish out some wisdom about self-care on ...
Miss Simone Biles is filling up all my social media feeds and I’m oh so happy to see it! She’s been breaking records likes it’s nobody’s business. At the U.S. Championships this year she won ...
Former First Lady Michelle Obama has always been an example of intellect and individuality. She is not only professionally accomplished (she graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law), but she lives her life with conviction, passion, ...
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