The history of African-American women in Hollywood is filled with immense talent often stifled by systemic racism, limited ...
In 1969, Black educators and students at Kent State University proposed the month of February to be celebrated as Black ...
State Rep. Shelia Stubbs says she has not given up on trying to pass a bill to create a task force to investigate missing and ...
The U.S. is celebrating the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in 2020. On Aug. 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, making the amendment law and ensuring that ...
The Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame marks its 40th anniversary this year, and today we're commemorating this milestone, talking ...
Her name may not be well known, but Bessie Stringfield’s prowess and bravado on a motorcycle are legendary. Stringfield taught herself to ride a motorcycle as a teen. She went on to become the first ...
SB 404 would establish a 17-member task force to examine the issue of missing and murdered Black women and girls and produce ...
As we enter International Black Women’s History Month, Black art has always been a means of documenting and creating history, putting out powerful stories that depict Black women’s experiences, ...
Written by Erica Marshall-Lee, Ph.D., ABPP, on behalf of the Atlanta Behavioral Health Advocates Why are there such monumental barriers for a Black woman to become president of the United States? The ...
Her "trans-racial" experience is very different from Rachel Dolezal's, she says. — -- Verda Byrd spent the past seven decades of her life as a black woman, but at age 70, she discovered a ...
She has earned over $40,000 in college scholarships due to playing chess. A Brooklyn teenager, Jessica Hyatt, has made history by becoming the highest-rated African American female chess player.