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The tools that feminist science studies have developed are critical to the sciences because they ask new questions, and ...
Several years ago, two African American women, Elaine Buck and Beverly Mills, decided to do some research on the history of ...
Detroit, historically the nation’s largest majority-Black city, continues to be a political bellwether for urban America.
This Memorial Day, we’re remembering the legacy of the WWII era unit, the 6888 Central Postal Directory Battalion. It was the ...
These women have largely been forgotten, until now. The lesser-known figures who powered the Civil Rights Movement are the subject of a brand-new opera, set to make its world premiere next week in ...
The U.S. Mint has issued new quarters celebrating the contributions of African American women. Ida B. Wells, Maya Angelou, Bessie Coleman, and Pauli Murray are featured.
An exhibition in Cambridge, England uses contemporary portraits to give a face to prominent Black rebels and abolitionists of ...
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The History of Pride in DC
Deacon Maccubin, founder of Lambda Rising bookstore in Dupont Circle, holds DC’s first annual Pride event, the Gay Pride ...
Staff Sergeant Tiana Trent, formerly stationed in Germany with the U.S. Army’s 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, has ...
Winning the mayoral race in Anniston, Alabama, Ciara Smith has officially become the youngest and first African American ...
Many were in attendance, and as tradition goes — when a person is in the presence of a pope, they dress in black, except for ...
Despite these obstacles, determined women created networks ... Nurses,” the first comprehensive documentation of Black nursing history, ensuring these contributions would not be erased.