Overview: Data shows Black women are disproportionately reliant on Medicaid, a government-funded healthcare program that serves one in three Black women. Meanwhile, around half of all Black women have ...

Sarah Elisabeth Goode made history in 1885 when she became one of the first Black American women to earn a patent. She ...

When CeCe Peniston belts the first triumphant note of “Finally” at this year’s Roots Picnic, she won’t just be reviving a hit ...

Eileen Filler-Corn, D-Fairfax, will be the next speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates and the commonwealth’s first female speaker ... I know that for any young, black woman that one ...

The opera spotlights the women who challenged segregation in Montgomery, using classical music infused with sounds of gospel, jazz and the blues to tell the story centered around seven women.

The Civil Rights-era ‘She Who Dared,’ likely the first professionally staged opera by Black women, premieres June 3 in ...

In a panel moderated by MadameNoire managing editor, Danica Daniel, our Women To Know: Modern Mavericks spoke in-depth about their work as Black women artists.

NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, an outspoken, gravel-voiced Harlem Democrat who spent nearly five decades on Capitol Hill and was a founding member of the Congressional ...

The election of Upmeyer, a cardiology nurse practitioner in her seventh House term, also marked the first time that the Iowa Legislature will have women in top positions in both chambers.