As the first African American woman to be ordained as a rabbi, Denver Rabbi Alysa Uriel Stanton's journey is one of determination, faith, and unwavering strength.

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 ...

In 1952, Wilfred Duncan became the first African-American firefighter in Pasadena—and later, its first African-American captain. Number four out of 13 siblings, he grew up in Pasadena and later ...

OLATHE, Kan. -- There’s a new Johnson County sheriff in town as he makes history swearing-in. Sheriff Byron Roberson is the first African American man to lead the county and the first Democrat ...

Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, retiring Archbishop of Washington, D.C., and the first and only African American Cardinal, ...

For the first time in its nearly 30-year history, the African American Cultural and Historical Museum is opening to the public. It was previously open by appointment only, but that is changing ...

When the Ebony Ladies Golf League was founded by Louise Horne in 1974 at the Riverdale course, they formed the first African American women’s golf league in the state.

She went on to become the first African American woman to travel across country solo on a motorcycle in the 1930s. WFAE’s Gwendolyn Glenn has more on North Carolina native Bessie Stringfield, ...

Tetrarch guitarist Diamond Rowe has just become the first African American woman in heavy music to have her own signature guitar.. She's just revealed a new collaboration with Jackson and is the ...

Large language models (LLMs) are becoming less overtly racist, but respond negatively to text in African American English. Such ‘covert’ racism could harm speakers of this dialect when LLMs ...

Gov. Jim Pillen appointed Omaha author and performer Jewel Rodgers as Nebraska's new state poet.Rodgers, 27, is the youngest and first African American person to hold that position.And no one ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — One of The Citadel's own is making history, becoming the first African American graduate to earn the rank of Lieutenant General. Lt. Gen. David Wilson, from the class ...