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 ...

Malinda Russell was a culinary pioneer in the middle of the 19th century whose “Domestic Cook Book” was the first cookbook authored by an African American woman in the United States.

Front view of the Museum of African American History and Culture Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / Fatimah Dixon (April 7, 2025, WASHINGTON, D.C.) – – The National Council of Negro Women (NCNW ...

Judy Hutson introduces Johnny Harrington, a groundbreaking Black female spy character inspired by Josephine Baker's secret ...

Prominent Pastor Notified Books Loaned to African American Museum May Be Returned ... National Council of Negro Women and the Leadership Coalition for Civil Rights. Predominantly Black churches ...

Sherald's monumental solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of Art is rooted in the power of Black figures and the visual ...

My grandchildren … they needed to have a breadth of knowledge for African-American ... is essential about American history, it is its civil rights struggles, the women’s suffrage movement ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National African American ... of Negro Women said in a statement.

She became the first African American woman in South Carolina to earn a medical license and passionately advocated for improved healthcare for African Americans, particularly focusing on children.