A new book, “Blackbirds Singing,” offers a collection of speeches and quotations from African American women who have fought back against their words being distorted, trivialized, and ignored.

More Black women than ever before are becoming showrunners, controlling the narrative and giving valuable opportunities to other Black women for behind-the-scenes jobs.

During Black History Month, at a time when Black history is being banned in schools, we remember the mothers of the reparations movement.

Amy Coney Barrett and other members of the Supreme Court have shown outrageous disregard for the real impact of pregnancy.

An initiative to digitize and reorganize the archives of The Afro American, the United States’ longest-running Black-owned newspaper, will give scholars, journalists, and the public new insights into history.

The author, Wells’ great-granddaughter, aims to introduce the journalist, activist, and anti-lynching leader “to a younger generation and other people who might not be as familiar with her life.”

Now that Justice Amy Coney Barrett has taken her seat, the ultraconservative court appears poised to curtail the Affordable Care Act and reproductive rights. The damage can be addressed with action at the local level.

Despite the unfulfilled promise of the 19th Amendment, Black women have traveled an impressive distance over the last century, and continue to exert outsize political influence.

“Remember the true meaning of Juneteenth — a celebration kept alive by generations of black people.”

These recent works by Black women historians challenge conventional narratives of the history of the United States.

Although media attention to the problem has waned, the harsh reality is that between 64,000 and 75,000 Black women and girls are currently missing in the U.S.

Alicia Garza, the principal and co-founder of the Black Futures Lab, is determined to flip the where candidates talk about Black communities, but don't talk to them—beginning with "the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction."

In recent years, a number of new studies have shed light on the scope and reality of the continuing HIV crisis among Black women in the United States. The high rates of infection have left experts and advocates scrambling to ensure Black women are receiving the medical care they need.

According to a new study, there was an encouraging increase in diverse fictional depictions of abortion last year.

The new Marvel blockbuster imagines an Africana womanhood impervious to the effects of colonialism.