The death of Ruth Ann Butler sent shockwaves through the Upstate as political figures McMaster and White offer condolences to ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Research on Boston's Home for Aged Colored Women offers a poignant window into a past we only thought we knew.

PHOENIX -- Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs appointed Maria Elena Cruz to the Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday, making the state ...

Eleni Skoura was the first woman elected to the Greek parliament, in a historic moment for the all-male institution.

Allen Pickert/Air National Guard A woman who died on an Air France flight has been identified as a member of the Kansas Air National Guard, authorities said. Air France said in a news release that ...

At a contemplative ceremony Thursday morning, Columbus leaders remembered the city’s first Black police chief as a trailblazing man who spent more than five decades as a dedicated public servant.

BRUSSELS ― Tune into any European Parliament ... speaks once the first round of speakers on behalf of each group, usually the group chairs, have opened the debate. According to the email, which was ...