Braiding traditions across the African diaspora both predate and defy the colonial confines set forth to erase and subjugate ...

Dr. Carnita Atwater preserves Black history through the Kukutana African American History Museum in North Memphis.

Stringfield taught herself to ride a motorcycle as a teen. She went on to become the first African American woman to travel across country solo on a motorcycle in the 1930s. WFAE’s Gwendolyn ...

NEW YORK, May 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Fawn Weaver, best known as "The People's CEO" and the visionary founder behind the Uncle Nearest portfolio of brands, has been officially inducted into the ...

Featuring an entirely Latin American cast, the eight-episode second season is currently in production. Set in 1971 and inspired by true events, Women in Blue (Las Azules) Season 2 continues the ...

with studies of African ancestry limited primarily to African- American women, who largely descend from West African populations. A tool that estimates lifetime cancer risk based on DNA ...

At a time when it is under scrutiny from the White House, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is without its director, who stepped down last month.

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The first African American woman to serve as the United States Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman died at the age of 77 on Friday. As a Mobile native, family and friends in the ...

This time, Turner added another stop on his long day’s journey — the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Turner knelt in prayer and laid a wreath at the entrance of the ...

“I went to a historically Black church and I feel like it’s always an occasion to go to church as an African American,” says ... next generation of young women, girls and nonbinary children ...

Becoming an astronaut is hard enough, but one woman overcame obstacles to become the first African American woman in space. Born in the 1950s, Jemison would let nothing stop her from becoming one ...