Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander was a woman ... and the first Black woman to earn a PhD in the United States. A statue in ...

According to a 2020 report in Archinect, only 0.4 percent of licensed architects in the United States are Black women.

From emotional gut punches like '12 Years a Slave' to the disturbing brilliance of 'Irreversible,' these cinematic ...

As a result, keeping the operation running was a responsibility often left to 10-year-old Penny and her mother ... re changing the nature of the industry itself. "I think women have always ...

Edited by writer and activist, Jael Richardson, Today I Am is a collection of short stories written by emerging writers in ...

The sheriff’s office says the woman is the third person arrested in connection to a man whose body was found in the trunk at a Palmetto nature preserve.

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily ... repeatedly called for an end to women serving in combat roles in the military, the extreme nature of those remarks might seem ...

Georgia is still reeling from its second snowstorm of the month, a rare one-two punch from Mother Nature that has stranded ... neighbors in Stone Mountain. A woman sought assistance for her ...

Last month Vanessa announced her 'remarkable' mother died December 28 aged 85 ... dynamo and force of nature packed into a 5ft frame. 'Our mom, Helen Williams, aka Gaga to many, took her final ...

My grandmother was a colored girl born in Birmingham, Alabama. I can imagine that she was a hard-headed, 'talking girl,' like ...

Feb 12 (Reuters) - The family of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who was fatally shot by police ... according to an ABC News affiliate. Massey, a mother of two teenagers, had called police about ...

Donna F. Lewis' mother, Virgie Lee Caywood, served in the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, a unit of African American women in World War II. The 6888th Battalion was tasked with clearing ...