Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license. Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination.

Henrietta Lacks was an African American woman whose cancer cells were taken in 1951 without her or her family’s permission and used to generate the HeLa cell line – the world’s first ...

Before she left, Hector had collected the 263 cards from students who pledged to vote and seven forms from students who'd registered. The stop was one of many in the organization’s effort to connect ...

Why is there a disproportionate concentration of African American men in state and federal prisons? How are African American women portrayed in U.S. and world media? Find the answer to these and so ...

The effort for equality that Mahoney launched continued. From about 2,400 in 1910, the number of African American women in nursing had more than doubled by 1930, four years after Mahoney's death.

Hanson, Jr. spotlights the life and legacy of the late Julius Whittier, the first African American football scholarship recipient and letterman at the University of Texas at Austin, with insights ...

Friday marked a significant milestone for the St. Louis Postal Service as the agency celebrated its first African-American ...

Tameka Amado, a young African American woman in Boston, says she has changed her hair "plenty of times" for work and school. "When I was on the competitive cheerleading team, I was never allowed ...

The first African-American woman to fly in space, Mae Jemison (1956-) holds a B.S. in chemical engineering. In 1992, she served on an eight-day Space Shuttle mission that conducted microgravity ...

The gender wealth gap among America’s richest people remains wide—there are only 67 women on this year’s Forbes 400 list—but it’s narrowing. Women now account for 17% of the list, up ...

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Titles such as Jessica Grose’s Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood and ... In her new book, ...