Beloved for her role as Kizzy on the history-making series Roots, Leslie Uggams, now 82, has been making audiences laugh, cry ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stringfield taught herself to ride a motorcycle as a teen. She went on to become the first African American woman to travel across country solo on a motorcycle in the 1930s. WFAE’s Gwendolyn ...

The Semmes Police Department are still searching for a man accused of a shooting that left a woman injured. Police say Ronald Graham, 49, has a warrant for his arrest and his charged are attempted ...

David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and ...

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.

Jill S. Greenlee receives funding from Department of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University and the Norman Fund at Brandeis University. Adebusola Okedele does not work for ...

Just yesterday, Black Women on Broadway (BWOB) held its fourth annual awards celebration honoring three exceptional women - LaTanya Richardson Jackson, LaChanze, and Khaila Wilcoxon - whose ...

WESTLAKE, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- New photos show the three men believed to be responsible for the most recent attack on a transgender woman in Westlake ... to the face and head, only the kicks ...

The experiences and lives of Black women have often been overlooked in Hollywood, but in recent decades, this has thankfully begun to change. Women of color have made great strides in front of and ...