The Springfield Police Department is asking for help identifying a woman who they said committed retail theft. The theft happened on June 16 at the JCPenney at 1201 South Dirksen Parkway. Springfield ...

Welcome to It’s Textured, a column where we untangle the joy, trauma, confusion, and frustration that can come with Black ...

Patricia Bath hit several milestones in her medical career. The opthalmologist was the first Black female physician to receive a medical patent and was the first Black woman to finish a residency in ...

The board voted unanimously to approve Cotton’s three-year contract, with a trustee absent. She will assume the role on June 20, becoming the 11th permanent superintendent in the district’s history ...

What are the most common causes of hair loss for Black women? The idea that thinning ... temporary or long term hair loss are women. Some have hair that is thinning all over, while others see the ...

A Chillicothe woman killed Friday morning in a head-on vehicle crash in Peoria Heights has been identified. The driver was identified as 30-year-old Raven S. Jackson of Chillicothe, according to ...

Yeah, and that is with *** renewed push to create *** task force for missing and murdered black women and girls in Wisconsin. This will be the 3rd time Democratic state Representative Sheila ...

She was the first African American woman to accomplish this feat. Her name may not be well known, but Bessie Stringfield’s prowess and bravado on a motorcycle are legendary. Stringfield taught ...

Officials said the bullet grazed the woman’s head. A warrant for the suspect is expected to be signed Thursday, according to Semmes police. Chief Todd Freind on Thursday identified the suspect ...

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A Black woman will lead the Austell Police Department for the first time in its history. A unanimous city council vote established Shameta Jones-Harrell as Austell’s new police chief.

In a study conducted in 2017 and 2018 in the United States (where 19.3% of members of the House of Representatives at the time were women), only 13% of children drew a woman political leader.