Thomas Fortune Cultural Center will host a special event spotlighting the intertwined histories of Native American and African American populations in Monmouth County. Starting at 2 p.m. on Nov ...

The first African American woman to serve as the United States Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman died at the age of 77 on ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license. Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination.

The program brings together faculty and students from a variety of academic fields, including history, English, music, art, film and media studies, indigenous studies, Asian American studies, African ...

Native American women had the highest incidence of major postpartum depression (18.7%), followed by White women (17.6%), then African American women (14.8%), and Hispanic women had the least (2.5%).

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The first African American woman to serve as the United States Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman died at the age of 77 on Friday. As a Mobile native, family and friends in the ...