Like scores of other women in the region, this 44-year-old mother is shifting the makeup of Zimbabwe’s rural rideshare and delivery market. “We are the female Ubers of rural Zimbabwe in a ...

(WDAM) - Tamiko Bridges has made some history in Ellisville. Bridges became not only the first female, but the first African American to be selected director of Jones College’s Maroon Typhoon ...

ELSMERE, Ky. — Overgrown weeds, uneven ground and headstones covered by bushes and trees is putting one historic African American cemetery in disarray. “These are all over; you could break ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (7News) — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has vetoed a bill that would have allowed African American history courses to count toward core high school graduation requirements.

According to leading genealogists, Pope Leo’s family history reveals a deep and complex African American lineage, with roots stretching back to New Orleans and Haiti. "I looked into some of the ...

AFRICAN AMERICANS. Cleveland's African American community is almost as old as the city itself. GEORGE PEAKE, the first Black settler, arrived in 1809 and by 1860 there were 799 Black people living in ...

SZA walked away with two American Music Awards — Favorite Female R&B Artist and Favorite R&B Song for “Saturn.” ‘Break Free’: Professor Announces Decision to Resign Elisabeth Moss took ...

The daring and desperate acts of rebellion from New York to the Caribbean shattered contemporary stereotypes of enslaved peoples and challenged the institution of slavery itself. In 1811, enslaved ...

In fact, when Haigler last dived with Jones in 2019, near Key West, Florida, they were celebrating two milestones in African American diving: Underwater Adventure Seekers was 60 years old ...

Not only was Atawo the first player from Cal to win a Pac-10 singles championship, but she went on to become the first African-American female to win a national singles championship at the Division I ...

Harris is best known for having been a longtime member of Sweet Honey in the Rock, an acclaimed African-American female a cappella group that she first joined in 1974 and counted herself as a ...

"Check out 'Becoming Katharine Graham' and you'll see a remarkable story of American history," Buffett ... Graham took the reins to become the first female CEO of a Fortune 500 company.