Tyra Banks parlayed her success as a model into a television and movie career. Halle Berry accepts the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in “Monster’s Ball” in 2002. Lisa ...

Black women are commanding screens like never ... D.C., known for being one of the country’s most affluent African American communities. The powerful Dupree family is at the heart of this ...

Meredith Herndon Mae Reeves stands on the farthest right in a group of unidentified women in 1950. Image courtesy of the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History ...