A demand for nurse-midwifery care emerged in the immediate ... "granny," who was still delivering a large number of African American women in the South. The Children's Bureau provided consultation ...

Mamie “Peanut” Johnson is one of only three female players to ever play in the Negro League. Shown here, Johnson being honored on Jackie Robinson Day, April 15, 2014.

Adriana Smith, declared braindead in February, delivered a baby via C-Section. The newborn, Chance, is in NICU.

The Pentagon may rename Navy ships honoring Harriet Tubman and Thurgood Marshall. Maryland leaders urge the Navy to preserve ...

Her story mirrors the challenges many Black women face during and after pregnancy ... even while being in Knoxville, where I've had my African American clients that were dismissed or were handled or ...

Canada-based Nigerian filmmaker Pascal Atuma is on the verge of sparking a global conversation around the marital challenges faced by African families in the diaspora, with his recently released ...

Councilman Anthony Mattox Jr.'s campaign was still taxiing on the runway, waiting for his election petitions to be validated.

A prominent figure in the Augusta community has died. Born in July 1936 in LaGrange, North Carolina, Christine Miller-Betts began what would become a life of service and hard work.

19, 20 In this article we highlight manifestations of structural and individual racism in the reproductive health experience of Black women living ... as Black or African American, and had lived ...

The following month, at the Battle of Bunker Hill, Black and Indigenous soldiers, both free and enslaved, fought alongside ...

She’s known as “the mother whisperer” and now Dr Amber Hart has established a maternal wellbeing centre that allows new mums ...

Esther Ngumbi thinks of the sacrifices her Kenyan dad made to ensure that not only his son but his four daughters got an ...