Having an Afro or dreadlocks can mean solitary confinement. Meanwhile, going with mandated hairstyles may be life-threatening ...

Jena Sims has been in modeling since her teenage days and has won numerous pageant titles. She is the winner of Miss Georgia Junior National Teenager 2004 and a year later was crowned as Miss Junior ...

It’s a complex issue, and not one that can be solved overnight: Black women’s higher breast cancer mortality rate compared to ...

A new exhibit of the works at the National Museum of Women in the Arts reprises the creativity and relevancy of a group of ...

Despite growing political tensions, Black women are still finding a haven within Mexico’s borders, and doing their part to ...

The conflict, as a result of which the American soldier Gordon Black attacked his Russian girlfriend in Vladivostok and ...

For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has ...

Rodney and Temecia Jackson say Texas child protective services took their newborn and gave them paperwork bearing a different ...

Black women have long been at the forefront of history, breaking barriers, pioneering movements and shaping the world.

The fertility rate last year – 54.6 births for every 1,000 women of reproductive age – increased less than 1% from the record ...

Simone Biles is unsure whether she will compete at the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028. For now, the most decorated gymnast of ...

Australian entertainer Hugh Jackman took time during his latest Broadway show to take a lighthearted shot at his “Deadpool & ...