The town of Pennsauken, which is racially diverse, has had an African American mayor and a woman mayor, but never an African ...

Dr. Edith Irby Jones broke barriers in medicine, becoming the first African American to graduate from the University of Arkansas School of Medicine and the first woman elected president of the ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license. Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination.

leaving an impressive teaching legacy of strong undergraduate and graduate chemistry programs. The first African-American woman to fly in space, Mae Jemison (1956-) holds a B.S. in chemical ...

By focusing exclusively on African-American mothers, this study confirms those broader findings apply to them, too. That's important because African-American women face three chal ...