In 1936, nearly two decades before the Civil Rights Movement, Helen Webb Harris, an educator in the Washington, DC, area, invited 12 friends to her home to discuss forming a club. The next year, Webb ...

While Black women have been on the frontlines of every social and political movement in the United States, they have often been sidelined or not fully recognized for their contributions. As champions ...

For Black women, economic mobility looks very different depending on where they live. The national wage gap remains wide, and many regions still struggle with historic inequities that shape income, ...

In victory, Team USA defender Laila Edwards made history at the 2026 Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina. The 22-year-old Ohio native became the first Black American woman to win a gold medal in women’s ...

This is the third of three stories that chronicles the stories of transgender women who say they were abused by the prison ...

United States gold medalist Laila Edwards (left) had an assist on the game-tying goal, then Megan Keller (right) put the gold medal game away in OT. Julien de Rosa / AFP via Getty Images In victory, ...