Those who knew Bridgette Hempstead describe her as a warrior for African-American women diagnosed with breast cancer.

No aviation schools in America would teach Bessie Coleman how to fly in the 1920s. So, she sailed to France and became the ...

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 ...

Trump’s return to office on MLK Day feels like a rebuke of everything King stood for and fought for: his personal decency and ...

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 ...

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was ...

By Jim Beaugez Under cover of darkness during the early hours of June 7, 1863, an army of 1,500 Confederate troops approached ...

The 41st edition of the Sundance Film Festival returns to Park City and Salt Lake City in Utah, with world premiere ...

Traveling to Lincoln from Boston, Higginbotham said her grandfather, the Rev. Walter Henderson Brooks, was born a slave in ...

President Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship is already facing lawsuits, but that has been little ...

Throughout history, Black women have faced immense challenges and systemic oppression, yet they consistently rise above ...