Congresswoman Barbara Lee’s political journey began with a pivotal encounter with Shirley Chisholm—the first Black woman in Congress and the first Black woman to seek a major party’s presidential ...

As we close the book on 2025, here are 25 moments that have defined the last 25 years of women’s basketball in the U.S.

Black women have long been at the forefront of setting beauty trends and redefining beauty standards. Despite often being excluded from mainstream beauty narratives, Black women have spent and ...

As the American economy moves through choppy global waters of its own making, new data suggests that the country's precarious financial markets have already begun leaving one crucial demographic ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Bias against Black women in the workplace has unfortunately ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I tell stories about creating environments that empower everyone. A recently published MSNBC article made headlines for a shocking ...

Between the soaring cost of living, shifty changes in our healthcare system, and an ominous Trump presidency in our wake, there’s so much uncertainty on the horizon. The 2024 election was a ...

When a female colleague mentioned she was raising her therapy rates because a white male counterpart—with less experience—had higher rates, I was astonished. She shared the figure, and it was ...

Where can Black women feel supported and flourish financially? When posed that question, Dr. Lori Martin, a professor of African and African American studies and sociology at Louisiana State ...

At the beginning of 2025, Arkansas had fewer than 50 trained doulas, or trained birth coaches, across the state, according to ...