Between 1912 and the unraveling of racial segregation in the 1950s and 1960s, Rosenwald Schools played a vital role in the education of African American children living in the Jim Crow rural South. On ...

An unprecedented exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris explores the presence and influence of Black artists in the city ...

A puzzling discovery has left doctors scratching their heads: The brain of an American woman with Down syndrome showed all the classic signs of Alzheimer’s disease, yet she remained symptom-free ...

Next week, we'll dig into 1950 to 1974 and so on ... becoming the first composition by an African American woman to be played by a major orchestra. 1934: Child star Shirley Temple performs her ...

Asisat Oshoala is a six-time African Women’s Footballer of the Year who has won every trophy possible with Barcelona. The Nigerian is one of the best female football players and the first ...

In 1909, Nannie Helen Burroughs opened the National Training School for Women and Girls, offering a curriculum of vocational and academic training for African American women. For much of U.S ...

Then in 1912 he comes out for women's suffrage. Now the National American Women's Suffrage Association doesn't start fighting for a Constitutional amendment until really -- 'til 1913. And the ...

It was made necessary because at the time in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, African Americans were not always welcome in different places because if you got into a different town you didn’t know where ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - During the 1950s, African Americans in the South faced cruel treatment, segregation, and poor conditions. In Roanoke, it was no different. “Well, when I came to Roanoke ...

She notes diverse reactions from Indian women, highlighting cultural curiosity and past discrimination. Her video encourages a conversation about embracing Indian culture abroad. American-Indian ...

American woman Eugenea Collins has tried to silence critics who doubt her claims that she is the missing British child, Madeleine McCann. Madeleine, from Rothley in Leicestershire, was just three ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Three American women were found dead over the weekend in a beach resort in Belize, police said Monday, and officials were investigating the deaths as possible drug overdoses.