But the data suggest there’s more going on here than economics. Culture also shapes who is getting married and starting a ...

After earning a medical degree in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler died in obscurity and was buried without a headstone ...

It’s a complex issue, and not one that can be solved overnight: Black women’s higher breast cancer mortality rate compared to ...

A Concord man is making sure that the contributions of people of color during the Revolutionary War do not go unnoticed.

The International African American Museum is hosting a program March 27, celebrating the achievements of women with African descent this Women's History Month. “During Women’s History Month ...

Alexis Herman, a native of Mobile, served as the labor secretary in President Bill Clinton’s administration in 1997 until 2001.

President Trump targets museums he said push divisive ideology. Activists and historians say he's trying to erase the ...

Minnesota became the first state in the U.S. to create an office dedicated to the problem, the office’s director said.

Mobile native and former United States Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman has died. She was 77. Herman was the first African American to serve as the U.S. Labor Secretary. She ...

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution, which operates more than 20 museums and research centres visited by millions yearly in Washington DC and ...