Learn about these trailblazing Black women in history including luminaries like Kamala Harris, Maya Angelou, Michelle Obama, Aretha Franklin and Rosa Parks.

For five decades, we’ve challenged brands to see us intentionally, speak to us authentically and invest in us meaningfully.

For non-Hispanic Black women, that number jumps to 43.5 deaths per 100,000 births.

To kick off Women’s History Month, BLACK ENTERPRISE is spotlighting 20 influential Black women and acknowledging their extraordinary journey and the barriers they’ve broken along the way.

The conversation surrounding influential moments and people in black history often focuses on the contributions of men — leaving the vital efforts of black women by the wayside. Before Selma ...

Empower & Onyx and Cadillac take the Elle-evate: 100 Influential Black Women in Sports series to the next level with special amplified conversations featuring three iconic women. Led by Jemele ...

In or around 1825, John Andrew Jackson was born enslaved on a plantation in South Carolina and trained to spend his life picking cotton. But instead of living a life as a slave, he escaped bondage and ...

Other influential Black women such as former first lady Michelle Obama, media mogul Oprah Winfrey, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and superstar Beyoncé Knowles-Carter have proved ...

Some of Chicago’s most influential Black women kicked off Mother’s Day weekend on Friday with a vow to remove barriers made worse by the pandemic — in education, health care and economic ...

In honor of International Women's Day, we're highlighting nine global influencers, who are bossing up around the globe.

TIME has come up with their annual list of the most influential people of 2014, and eight women of color made the cut for their exemplary work in entertainment, government, politics, activism and ...