Jill Ker Conway made history with her inauguration as Smith’s seventh president in 1975. Breaking through the old boys’ network, she developed and led innovative programs that changed the perception ...

"It means that there have to be footprints left behind for the next president, the next African American ... ever find challenges being a Black woman?" Eyewitness News asked. "All the time. When I ...

From the first Black president to the first African American woman ever elected to the United States Congress, Black people have made considerable gains – and helped to change the face of U.S ...

"My mother was the first feminist that I ever ... first African American, regardless of gender, to have a PhD," Alexander-Minter said. "However, she couldn't get a job because she was a woman ...

MSNBC’s Symone Sanders-Townsend asked whether President ... his first term in 2020. "My decision to appoint @usairforce General Charles Brown as the USA’s first-ever African American military ...

Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot known as C.Q. who became only the second African American to hold the ... Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to lead the Navy; Gen. James Slife, the vice chief ...

Brown is a fighter pilot, and only the second African American to hold the ... Franchetti was the first woman to lead the Navy and the first-ever female military leader to be part of the Joint ...

U.S. President Donald Trump says no one has ever heard of ... During his first term, he used a crude expletive that refers to a pit latrine to describe some African countries.

Mr Donald Trump gave the longest-ever address to a joint session of Congress by any US president. Read more at ...

and for the talented men and women who worked alongside him. Dr. Hopkins’ reflections on working with President Carter: Dr. Donald Hopkins, an African American pediatrician who attended ...

Not long ago, Lee sent us some notes, which have been edited, about four other books that explore the lives of twentieth-century women weathering the consequences of the choice their families made ...

Trump’s frenetic first weeks in office have included the disintegration of the federal government, conflicts with America’s ...