There’s no denying it. Black women excel at nearly everything they do. From fashion to music to poetry, some of the greatest ...

Natalie Cole, Whitney Houston and Lauryn Hill’s album of the year wins all came in the 1990s. Beyoncé’s fifth shot, for ...

When educator Jane Dabney Shackelford wrote and published The Child’s Story of the Negro and Helen Adele Whiting wrote Negro Folk Tales for Pupils in the Primary Grades and Negro Art, Music and Rhyme ...

Cynthia Erivo, Teyana Taylor, Marla Gibbs & Raamla Mohamed named Essence Black Women in Hollywood honorees. Aldis Hodge to ...

In this interview, Bolden discussed her nontraditional path to the bench and her mission to leave the door open for others ...

Cathay Williams defied the odds as the first African-American woman to enlist in the U.S. Army, disguising herself as a man to serve in the Buffalo Soldiers. Despite facing racism, sexism, and health ...

The Army is refusing to name the female pilot killed aboard the military ... as the two other service members who were on the Black Hawk helicopter when it went down in the fiery crash into ...

Black women in blue remind us of the power of electricity. The jolting hue sends shock waves through our systems every time we see one of our melanated sistas rocking the primary color.

Ayanna Williams, who serves as the Williamsburg City Council’s first Black woman, talks about her new chapter as a councilor ...

Many Black people are finding joy, community, thrills and a bigger sense of the world through activities that were once ...

The U.S. Army has identified the female soldier in the doomed Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into an American Airlines flight this week, killing 67 people. Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach, of Durham ...

The 26-year-old, born Jaylah Ji'mya Hickmon, is one of the year’s most singular Black female rappers in the game. Even the self-proclaimed King of Rap, Kendrick Lamar, called her “the hardest ...