Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed ...

EVERY Jan. 9, as dawn cracks over Manila’s smog-choked skyline, a human tsunami engulfs Quiapo. From midnight onward, streets ...

The Lady Justice statue symbolizes fairness and impartiality in the legal system. External factors should not influence ...

The South Carolina Statehouse grounds bears monuments that tell the story not just of South Carolina history, but the context ...

A town's first statue of a non-royal woman has been unveiled. The life-size bronze of novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner has been installed in Dorchester, Dorset. It is the work of charity Visible Women ...

It is no accident that Black women are being disproportionately affected by Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce. In the past 120 days, approximately 300,000 Black women have been forced out of the ...

The milestone arrives within a category that has long seen limited representation for Black women. Before Erivo’s second nomination, only 12 Black women had been nominated in the Globes’ comedy ...

If you’ve been anywhere near a timeline this week, you already know Netflix’s newest documentary on Sean “Diddy” Combs has folks in a chokehold. “Sean Combs: The Reckoning” peels back the glossy, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Two Black pregnant women delivered in crisis after hospitals delayed emergency care, with one giving birth on an ...

This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. When the unemployment rate for African American women hit nearly 7 percent in August, alarms went off ...

Two pregnant black women nearly 1,000 miles apart were ready to do what many do every day: welcome new bundles of joy, and just before the start of the holiday season. Instead, the health of both ...