The facility, which is officially called the Dea Hurston New Village Arts Center, is the only fine arts center to have been named after a woman of color in the last 50 years. It is also the first of ...

Motley was the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge and the first Black woman to argue a case before the U.S.

Mary Jackson began her engineering career in an era in which female engineers of any background were a rarity.

Woodrow Wilson became the first African American to serve in the Nevada Legislature. He went through a lot to get there.

Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears is a force to be reckoned with, serving as the first woman of color to be ...

A one-woman show coming to West Philly tells the story of a woman often left out of history books: Shirley Chisholm, the ...

Illinois struck down laws that kept free Black people from entering the state in 1865, a year after the Illinois Colored Convention of 1853, where men and women from across the country worked to ...

Content warning: This piece includes an account of an apparent suicide.

The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement.

Mexico Reaches Deal With U.S. to Delay Trump Tariffs President Trump said he would pause tariffs on Mexico for a month, but levies on Canada and China were still set to take effect on Tuesday ...