In 1958, Williams chaired the Committee to Combat Racial Injustice, which organized to defend two Black boys, ages 7 and 9, ...
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In the first installment of her column "Hidden Gems from a Black Girl Engineering Major," Cayla Withers writes about the ...
When educator Jane Dabney Shackelford wrote and published The Child’s Story of the Negro and Helen Adele Whiting wrote Negro Folk Tales for Pupils in the Primary Grades and Negro Art, Music and Rhyme ...
With the controversy surrounding President Donald Trump's executive order terminating diversity, equity and inclusion ...
In a groundbreaking celebration of Black excellence, Tyler Perry has elevated Meghan Markle's journey alongside ...
As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...
Somaya Critchlow, 31, is showing her provocative paintings alongside a storied collection that includes work by Rubens, van ...
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The NFL has tipped its hat off to Gayle Benson and other prominent women affiliated with the league this week in New Orleans.
The documentary "The Aunties" centers on two gay women farming the plantation said to have been where Harriet Tubman’s family lived.