In HBO’s hit series The Gilded Age, the actor LisaGay Hamilton plays Philadelphia poet, abolitionist, and suffragist Frances ...

WASHINGTON ‒ In a rare Congressional effort crossing party lines, Democrat and GOP lawmakers are calling for funding for a new women’s history museum on the National Mall that would join museums ...

HBO's "The Gilded Age" has explored what it was like for wealthy Black Americans in the late 1800s in New York City.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The International African American Museum is hosting a program March 27, celebrating the achievements of women with African descent this Women's History Month.

Laquisha Henderson was promoted to the rank of jail lieutenant from sergeant. Henderson’s promotion makes her the ...

For Black History Month, the museum showed us some of the featured Black women in the exhibit. “Here you can come and learn about MumBet, who was a woman who was enslaved who sued for her own ...

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFNS) — February is the celebration of African American history and the accomplishments of Black people around the world. There are many female pioneers in ...

Partner Content Poetic Short Illuminates Dark History Haunting African American Women Cara Lawson’s story of a Black midwife in 1880s Georgia uses magical realism to highlight traumas that still ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – Nov. 6, 2018, marks a significant and historic win for African-American women in Harris County during the midterm election. For the first time, 17 black women who were ...

This year, 34 African American women will graduate from West Point and 23-year-old Gabrielle Alford is one of them. "We're gonna be going out and having to solve complex problems.

In 1997, she was hired as Northwestern Airline’s first African-American woman pilot. Then a year ago she made history again by becoming Delta Airline’s first black female captain.

Wilson served in the U.S. Army and became the first African-American woman to earn the prestigious Tomb Guard Badge. She became a sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknowns, Jan. 22, 1997.