Black Maternal Health Week raises awareness and advocates for the improvement of maternal health outcomes within the African ...

Black women hold fewer leadership roles than their white counterparts, and those who attain prominence often receive less ...

A SOUTH African film initiative is reshaping the narrative of wildlife storytelling in Africa by empowering people who never had a chance to tell their stories from a local perspective. Last week ...

A blockbuster show at the Centre Pompidou in Paris spotlights 300-plus works by 150 artists of African heritage ...

What was once a vacant lot on South 11th Street in Newark is now poised to become one of the city’s most unique housing projects, designed to address New Jersey’s ongoing affordable housing shortage.

The United States has banned most refugees, including 20,000 people who were already ready to travel to the United States ...

In his latest executive order, President Trump has targeted the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum of African American History and Culture ... The order also aims at the American Women’s ...

As Women’s History Month comes to an end, I’ve been reflecting on ways to honor Black women. We often see and admire them in ways that are left unspoken or that aren’t amplified nearly ...

Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday, March 20, and became the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in world sports. COSTA ...

Kirsty Coventry has been elected as the new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), becoming the first woman and the first African to lead the organisation in its 131-year history. She ...

On Thursday, Kirsty Coventry, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and Zimbabwe’s current minister of sports became the first woman and the first African to be elected president of the International ...

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece (AP) — Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday and became the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job ...