Only a few weeks earlier, Obama had appeared on The View ... how my girls are doing, about their well-being, about their stability.” Here was a black woman who minored in African American ...

February is Black History Month. Here, an HG contributor reflects on the thorny significance of Addy Walker, the first Black doll introduced by the American Girl company. As a Black girl growing ...

For the first time ever, the children's principal dancer, the part of Clara, will be performed by an African-American girl. Salome Tregre ... "I couldn't move my left side; I was paralyzed.

Wonder of Women International seeks to inspire and empower black women and girls of color by creating ... a series of paintings to African-American women? Not until then he hadn’t.

These letters, printed in the pages of the Defender, and other reflections from African American girls who settled on Chicago’s South Side, fueled my scholarly search to understand how girls ...

When bestselling author Brit Bennett posted a tweet calling for American Girl ... side and the civil rights movement on the other,” Zaslow said. “There’s been a call for the story of an ...

African-American Girl Scouts chat at a camp named after Josephine Holloway, who pioneered scouting for girls of color. Nashville Banner Archives/Nashville Public Library Has a Girl Scout knocked ...

Melody Ellison is only the second black doll that is currently for sale from American Girl’s line of historical dolls. (Her immediate predecessor Cécile Rey, a girl from a well-to-do family in ...