The image of an unarmed African-American woman in a flowing dress, calmly standing in front ... were arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as Black Lives Matter supporters decried the fatal shooting ...

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African ...

As black women watch Michelle Obama on the national stage, they search — sometimes nervously — for nuances often lost on the larger culture. How she handles criticism, how she raises her ...

From the first Black president to the first African American woman ever elected ... defied an unofficial congressional rule that women had to wear dresses or skirts. In 1993, she and fellow ...

WASHINGTON ‒ California Sen. Laphonza Butler is the lone African American woman in the Senate and only the third Black woman to ever serve in the chamber. Six months into the job, the Democratic ...

ESSENCE.com staffers are constantly going back and forth about who we think is the most beautiful Black woman of all ... twenty-five most ravishing African-American women in all of history.

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BRAD SCHIMEL WILL BAN ABORTION IN THE FINAL DAYS OF BLACK ... WOMAN IS SHATTERING THE GLASS CEILING AT THE MILWAUKEE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE. DEPUTY JEFFERSON RECENTLY BECAME THE FIRST AFRICAN ...

Rochester, N.Y. — 10 African American women received some special recognition Tuesday night for their significant impact on the local community. The City of Rochester’s Black Heritage ...