FORT SMITH, Ark. — Dr. Mae Jemison, the first African American woman to travel to space, will visit Fort Smith on Wednesday, April 9. Dr. Jemison will present a talk at the University of ...

journalist and historian Clay Risen explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator Joseph McCarthy upended the nation Women Who Shaped History After earning a medical degree ...

FORT SMITH, Ark. — Dr. Mae Jemison, the first African American woman to travel to space, will visit Fort Smith on Wednesday, April 9. Dr. Jemison will present a talk at the University of ...

Malinda Russell was a culinary pioneer in the middle of the nineteenth century, whose “A Domestic Cook Book” was the first cookbook authored by an African American woman in the United States. It was ...

Aiming to help women overcome obstacles and inspire social change in the animation industry, the Afro Women in Animation Community recently hosted Africa's first ever women-focused animation festival ...

Southern Charm’s Season 9 painted Black women as villains—unpacking the racial bias and media manipulation that drove ...

Recognized as one of the premier African-American cultural arts festivals on the East Coast, AFRAM consistently draws significant crowds. AFRAM is the second major event in Baltimore’s summer ...

Their job was to sort and deliver mail to American troops. One of those women was Elkin native, Elizabeth Bernice Barker Johnson. Her daughter was upset that stories like her mom’s were taken ...

That moment stayed with her for years. It ultimately became the foundation for her traveling exhibition, Twelve Tablecloths.

You’re stepping into a space where love, pain, joy and healing are all happening on the same stage,” said The War and Treaty in a statement to the AFRO ... and Best American Roots Song ...

Brown, Canada's first known Black woman artist, is finally getting her due with a museum show in her native Nova Scotia.