Cori Bush, a St. Louis, Missouri, native, did not grow up thinking she would become a member of Congress. She is a formerly homeless Black woman who faced domestic violence and became a single mom ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marianne Schnall is a journalist who amplifies women’s leadership. As we observe Women’s History Month, there is so much we can ...

Women leaders are leaving top jobs at a higher rate than ever before. It’s being called the “Great Breakup.” And it’s happening to women of color at arts groups nationwide, from theaters and opera ...

Two of this season’s most powerful and talked-about awards contenders, “Women Talking” and “Emancipation,” have generated discussion not only for their powerful subject matter but for the bold and ...

Media typecasting of black women has ranged from unwed teenage mother to temptress... Media typecasting of black women has ranged from unwed teenage mother to temptress. Dr. Martha Bireda shares how ...

As a single mom and Air Force veteran, Brashanda Walker was stuck in a dead-end internship. She wanted to fulfill her lifelong dream of working in tech and without a formal education, she realized the ...

Across sectors, organizations in the United States have long placed barriers between women of color and leadership positions. Women of color are significantly underrepresented in corporate leadership ...

Ida B. Wells was in Washington, D.C., in 1913 for a parade of the National American Woman Suffrage Association when she learned that white organizers wanted Black women to march at the back so as not ...

The U.S. is celebrating the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in 2020. On Aug. 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, making the amendment law and ensuring that ...

DORCHESTER - They don't look like the thousands of other headstones at the Cedar Grove Cemetery in Dorchester – no names, no dates. Perhaps that's what's so alluring about the gravesites that read ...