17 Mar, 2026
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She’s Pretty and Black Owned: Meet Becca Woods

Pretty and Black Owned is a celebration of brilliance, beauty, and bold business moves. This series spotlights Black women who are building powerful brands, creating impact, and owning their lane with confidence and purpose. From passion to profit, these women represent what it looks like to lead, thrive, and win. Becca Woods is a creative director, […]

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Beyond the Happily Ever After: Monique Fisher on Writing Real, Joy-Filled Black Love Stories

Monique Fisher is a theatre and comic book geek who always has her hands glued to the keyboard conjuring up happily ever afters. She writes modern, fun, real life romances set in cities and small towns featuring a diverse cast of big hearted, lovable characters. When she isn’t writing, she’s busy trying to create shelf […]

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She’s Pretty and Black Owned: Meet Kea Lee

Pretty and Black Owned is a celebration of brilliance, beauty, and bold business moves. This series spotlights Black women who are building powerful brands, creating impact, and owning their lane with confidence and purpose. From passion to profit, these women represent what it looks like to lead, thrive, and win. Kea Lee is a wife, mother […]

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She’s Pretty and Black Owned: Meet Ke’Shawn Hill-Adamson

Pretty and Black Owned is a celebration of brilliance, beauty, and bold business moves. This series spotlights Black women who are building powerful brands, creating impact, and owning their lane with confidence and purpose. From passion to profit, these women represent what it looks like to lead, thrive, and win. Ke’Shawn Hill-Adamson is a Certified Grief […]

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She’s Pretty and Black Owned: Meet Suzanne Dunn

Pretty and Black Owned is a celebration of brilliance, beauty, and bold business moves. This series spotlights Black women who are building powerful brands, creating impact, and owning their lane with confidence and purpose. From passion to profit, these women represent what it looks like to lead, thrive, and win. SUZANNE DUNN JEWELRY is a Black-woman-owned […]

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She’s Pretty and Black Owned: Meet Chantelle Douglas

Pretty and Black Owned is a celebration of brilliance, beauty, and bold business moves. This series spotlights Black women who are building powerful brands, creating impact, and owning their lane with confidence and purpose. From passion to profit, these women represent what it looks like to lead, thrive, and win. Meet Chantelle Douglas Chantelle Douglas is […]

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God’s Creation

Create in Me a Clean Heart “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.” — Psalm 51:10 Who was asking this question? It was David. David was truly God’s creation, yet David had sinned against God. That sin did not change the fact that he was still God’s […]

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She’s Pretty and Black Owned: Meet Diamond Alexus

Pretty and Black Owned is a celebration of brilliance, beauty, and bold business moves. This series spotlights Black women who are building powerful brands, creating impact, and owning their lane with confidence and purpose. From passion to profit, these women represent what it looks like to lead, thrive, and win. Diamond Alexus is the founder of […]

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Turning Pages Into Purpose: Cori Wamsley on Writing, Publishing, and Empowering Women

For Cori Wamsley, stories have never been just entertainment, they’ve always been an invitation. An invitation to grow, to dream, to see yourself reflected in characters who are brave enough to be flawed and bold enough to change. A lifelong lover of books turned award-winning author and respected Pittsburgh publisher, Cori has built a career […]

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Creating Without Permission: A Conversation with Gitika Partington

Recently, songwriter, choral director, and arranger Gitika Partington quietly made music history. With the simultaneous release of thirteen albums—containing 130 original songs written and recorded over five years—she surpassed the current world record for the most albums released in a single day. What began as a simple songwriting practice evolved organically: nine albums became ten, […]