Althea Gibson shattered barriers in tennis and beyond by becoming the first Black athlete to win major titles and blaze a ...

An East St. Louis native who benefited from community programs as a child, Tandra Taylor now leads multiple initiatives to ...

The U.S. Mint has issued new quarters celebrating the contributions of African American women. Ida B. Wells, Maya Angelou, Bessie Coleman, and Pauli Murray are featured.

American woman to hold the rank of sergeant major in the Army during 1972, had a community park in Edgewood named after her.

In today’s climate of renewed Black consciousness and ancestral reclamation, the global call for connection to Africa is ...

After decades in traditional media, the pioneering journalist is building something entirely her own. Here’s how she’s doing it.

The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture honored B Michael and his husband Mark-Anthony ...

Paulsboro's Timika Lindsay, once the NAVY'S highest-ranking Black woman, worries that Trump and Hegseth's anti-diversity push ...

West Palm Beach native Rosalyn Sia Baker-Barnes made history June 27 when she was sworn in as the first African-American ...

For Christian de Rezendes, the documentary has been a labor of love, one he didn't expect to grow so big and take so long.

In New Orleans, Chef Dee Lavigne has reopened a door that closed nearly nine decades ago—and she’s carrying forward a legacy ...

Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...