When Ms. Lee, 76, was first elected to Congress in 1998, the House had 11 Black women in office, ... according to data compiled by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.

An American woman who had been detained in Afghanistan by the Taliban since February has been released and is in “good health,” according to a source with knowledge of the release.

A young American woman has been taken into police custody after her newborn baby was thrown out of a window of a Parisian hotel, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Tuesday.

In the final days of Black History Month, a Milwaukee woman is shattering the glass ceiling at the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office. Deputy Naquianna Jefferson recently became the first African ...

An American woman detained for weeks in Afghanistan by the Taliban has been released from custody, according to a person familiar with the matter and a social media post Saturday from a longtime U ...