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, ...

Black moms are dying at three times the rate. Dr. Que English’s Thrive Tour is rebuilding the village and saving lives across ...

Two prominent Black physicians urge Black people and other people of color to discard long-repeated misinformation related to ...

W est Palm Beach native Rosalyn Sia Baker-Barnes made history June 27 when she was sworn in as the first African-American female president of The Florida Bar.

“You have to keep people safe,” the doctor said in a glowing news story. So why does he think outing a woman is a good thing? From Melinda Henneberger: ...

Michele Samuels, Detroit Golf Club's first Black female president, was inspired by her great, great grandfather who led a resistance by former slaves.

A century before Beyoncé, Josephine Baker became America’s first global pop star. She broke barriers, built a brand, and never asked permission.

Carol Moseley Braun is no stranger to stepping into new territory. She was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate now she shares that experience a new memoir.

Carol Moseley Braun is no stranger to stepping into new territory. She was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate now she shares that experience a new memoir.

Carol Moseley Braun is a woman of many firsts. After serving as an Illinois state representative from 1978 to 1988, Moseley Braun became the recorder of deeds for Cook County, Illinois, in 1988 — ...

NEW BERLIN, Wis.— History was made Saturday night as Willow Newell, a 22-year-old from Racine, was crowned Miss Wisconsin 2025– becoming the first Black woman to ever win the state title ...