If you’re a longtime soap viewer, we probably don’t need to remind you that for decades, the shows were broadcast in black-and-white — but were anything but white and Black. In fact, it wasn’t until ...

Generally overlooked in Art History 101 was the inverse: how European materials and images were repurposed by Indigenous ...

Jean Hutchinson recreates 18th century garments to showcase overlooked stories of women during the American Revolution.

From P.T. Barnum to Walt Disney, these pioneers reimagined how the public wanted to be entertained—before the public realized ...

(NNPA Newswire) – In a significant moment for the labor movement, Roxanne Brown is set to become the first African-American woman elected as president of the United Steelworkers (USW), North America’s ...

The Palm Beach County commission has doubled down on preserving and celebrating African American history with new funding toward an $80 million Black museum development in West Palm Beach. The county ...

Only one American woman in politics, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, made Forbes’s 2025 list of most powerful women. Wiles, the White House’s first female chief of staff, is ranked 66th on the ...

This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. When the unemployment rate for African American women hit nearly 7 percent in August, alarms went off ...

Setting a serious agenda for tourism development, African women are coming up, rising up to take a leading role in tourism entrepreneurship across the continent, targeting to share their wide ...

The Detroit Institute of Arts' new African American art galleries “Reimagine African American Art” open to the public Saturday featuring 50 works and a new central location adjacent to Rivera Court.

It’s not just white folks who can engage in racist behavior. We must be honest about the fact that Black men do it too. Black men, let’s have a conversation that’s been a long time coming. There is an ...

Learn about Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, and Eileen Collins, some of the pioneering women at NASA who were among the first to suit up for spaceflight. Valerie Neal Sally Ride at the Lyndon B. Johnson ...