Women won a majority of seats in the New Mexico Legislature in the general election, stirring expressions of vindication and ...

She has been the district attorney for San Francisco -- the first woman, first African-American and first Indian-origin ...

She was the third African American woman to win Miss USA, as well as the first African American woman to win Miss Texas. Smith moved to Los Angeles after her reign to pursue a career in Hollywood ...

As he did in his first term, US President-elect Donald Trump is likely in January to invoke the so-called global gag rule, a ...

Since independence, Arab and North African countries have struggled with multiple challenges ... and the redressing of gender-based human rights concerns, such as violence against women. Through its ...

Kamala Harris failed to defeat Donald Trump in the White House bid. If she had won, the Democrat would have been the first ...

A well-travelled American woman took some time to explain what a South African hun meant when she said Mzansi wasn't open to outsiders. The US lady's explanation received a lot of love from locals ...

SHREVEPORT, La. — A woman shot and killed early Sunday in the Highland neighborhood has been identified by the Caddo Parish ...

Hateful discourse such as this aims to instill fear in the community and disrupt us from exercising our constitutional rights ...

Soon he’ll be honored as the first individual Black person to get a statue on the Statehouse lawn. (AP video: Jeffrey Collins) A bust of Robert Smalls, who will soon be the first African American ...

African women are often heralded as the backbone of the continent’s economies, playing a pivotal role in sectors like agriculture and small businesses. Their efforts are vital to feeding ...