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The Nation’s First Black Female Doctor Blazed a Path for Women in Medicine. But She Was Left Out of the Story for Decades
After earning a medical degree in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler died in obscurity and was buried without a headstone ...
Meet Julian Abele, the Black Architect Who Was a Cornerstone of America’s Gilded Age
This trailblazer was responsible for some of the country’s most striking civic and university campus structures ...
Critics see Trump attacks on the 'Black Smithsonian' as an effort to sanitize racism in US history
Civil rights advocates, historians and Black political leaders are sharply rebuking President Donald Trump for his order ...
Ras Baraka could be NJ’s first Black governor – and polls show him in the lead after taking on Trump
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka leads polls in New Jersey’s Democratic gubernatorial primary. He could become the state’s first Black ...
First Black Republican woman elected to Congress dies of cancer
Love, who served in the U.S. House from 2015 to 2019, was the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress.
Mia Love, first Black Republican woman to serve in Congress, dies at 49
Love, who was raised in Connecticut and attended the University of Hartford, represented Utah's 4th District from 2015 to ...
Mia Love, first Black Republican congresswoman, dies at 49
Former U.S. congresswoman Mia Love, a political trailblazer who became the first Black Republican woman in Congress, died ...