As accolades poured in from around the world on the death of Pope Francis, prominent Black Americans pointed to the pontiff’s legacy of advocating for the marginalized, including Black people. Others, ...

A social worker, she became a Democratic Party insider and joined President Bill Clinton’s cabinet during his second term.

Civil rights groups, labor organizations and politicians praised Alexis Herman as a "trailblazer" who fought for the rights ...

Former Labor Secretary Alexis Herman died on Friday at the age of 77. Herman made history as the first Black person to hold ...

Marie Johnson, the first Black woman to wear a U.S. Capitol Police badge, reflects on her groundbreaking journey that began ...

Artist Nekisha Durrett’s latest piece of provocative public art illuminates a dark chapter in the history of the Philadelphia ...

Despite growing political tensions, Black women are still finding a haven within Mexico’s borders, and doing their part to ...

Don’t Forget to Remember (Me)” by Nekisha Durrett is a landscaping monument challenging the college’s racially exclusionary ...

Women of Power Honoree Alexis Herman, who was also a pioneer as the first Black U.S. Labor Secretary, dies at 76.

When I went to see “Sinners” Monday night, the woman sitting in front of me seemed to be super interested in whatever was on Pinterest on her phone. During a certain scene, she gasped and finally put ...

Boyah J. Farah shares this column about his experiences in Somalia as a way to give back to the town and in honor of Mike ...

Later on Monday, the Vatican revealed that the pope’s cause of death was a stroke that led to a coma and an “irreversible ...