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 ...

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Despite the loss of Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential contest being met with much disappointment from Black women — 92% ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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.

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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 ...