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Dr. Caroline Holman Skinner, (1858-1948) a circa 1897 graduate of the old Homeopathic College of Missouri, is recorded to be among the first three women doctors to practice medicine in ...
This is an opinion column. A chair was just a chair — until Miriam Elizabeth Benjamin put a light and a bell on one. Benjamin was a schoolteacher, composer and inventor, born in 1861 in Charleston, ...
It was refreshing to see an educated Black woman with a Doctor of Philosophy casted as a member on the billion-dollar Housewives franchise. Accolades no pass this sister.
We know that the Fugitive Doctor presents as a Black woman with locs and the Doctor does remember meeting that incarnation.
One thing cannot be denied: throughout history, Black women have faced countless glass ceilings. Yet, with resilience and ...
Culture Texas’ First Black Woman Poet Laureate Spreads Poems of Praise In tough times, Amanda Johnston is creating a community of gratitude with contributions from poets all across the state.
Love, born Ludmya Bourdeau, was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2022 and said her doctors estimated she had only 10 to 15 months to live, which she surpassed. With aggressive treatments, Love lived for ...
The Nation’s First Black Female Doctor Blazed a Path for Women in Medicine. But She Was Left Out of the Story for Decades After earning a medical degree in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler died in ...
Born into poverty and abandoned by her parents, Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo rises from a life selling sweets in the street to become the first female Dominican doctor in 1911 ...
Dr. Arlene Bennett was a pioneer for Black women at Penn's medical school after being the first to graduate in 1964.
Dr. Bennett is the first Black woman to graduate from Penn's medical school. Being a doctor is a dream that began while growing up in West Philadelphia.
Matilda Evans was one of SC's first Black doctors who opened hospitals, a free clinic, a training school, and businesses in Columbia, SC, during the early 1900s.