The New York City Council speaker, who officially launched her mayoral campaign on Saturday, would be the first woman to lead ...

Lafontant was born Jewel Carter Stradford in 1922 to a prominent African American family. Her father, C. Francis Stradford, ...

Black policing in Miami was not always as integrated as it is today. Black officers were once marginalized. The Black Police Precinct & Courthouse Museum proposes to tell the story and imprint it into ...

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Virginia Military Institute fires general for pushing for racial and gender equality, sparking protests and concerns about the school's future.

Corporations such as Facebook, Amazon and Target have eagerly followed the president's lead. But consumer boycotts show much ...

One of the pioneers in this field was Mary McLeod Bethune, an American educator who fought for African American ... pioneering female leaders. The British colonial era saw the first institutional ...

Former Vice President Kamala Harris is mapping out her next steps in politics and setting a timeline for making a major ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears is used to facing formidable obstacles in her political campaigns, and her ...

She also recalled an uncomfortable experience accessing washroom facilities during her first six months of joining ... Ms Raynor said that as a Black woman in the corporate world “it is not ...