The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was ...
Shalanda Young, outgoing director of Biden’s Office of Management and Budget, spoke about her historic tenure, her approach ...
In 1970, she didn’t seem “fazed by the fact that there was not a single person in that arena who looked like her.” ...
Throughout history, Black women have faced immense challenges and systemic oppression, yet they consistently rise above ...
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller was a protege of Auguste Rodin and shaped the Harlem Renaissance. The African American Museum in ...
In 1935, Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women, an “organization of organizations” to unify African American women’s organizations under one major umbrella. The Mary McLeod Bethune ...
An emotional General Assembly gathering to remember the 100 Black Virginians served in the Virginia General Assembly from the late 1870s to 1890 and in the 1867 constitutional convention.
Leon County students from kindergarten to grade 12 will get the chance to submit artwork, a song, or writings highlighting a ...
A passenger on an American Airlines flight to Miami assumed a white woman was a human trafficking victim of the Black man ...
In a groundbreaking moment for American politics, Kamala Harris has made history by becoming the first Black woman to win the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Her 2024 campaign for the ...
As Martin Luther King Day comes to an end, KWTX is highlighting local black historical figures within Central Texas who are ...