Black women have been at the forefront of many movements in American culture, including politics. But one woman in particular ...

While the election of the first black president marked a significant break ... Obama was the third African American to be elected to the Senate since Reconstruction when he won the seat from ...

The American presidency ... forced out of her position by the administration of the country’s first black president. Through most of her career as an agriculture activist, Sherrod had found ...

In the waning days of President Barack Obama’s administration, he and his wife, Michelle, hosted a farewell party, the full import of which no one could then grasp. It was late October, Friday ...

From the first Black president to the first African American woman ever elected to the United States Congress, Black people ...

Harris is the first woman, Black person or person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president ... act,” saying he was “putting the American people and our country above everything ...

In 1939, after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused ... press room lectern is now named. In 2009, a Black president and Black first lady entered the White House, a milestone day ...

“And when virtually all the African-American Clinton appointees began ... introduced the former president as a “stand-in for the first Black president.” Bill Clinton responded by saying ...

Dorothy Phillips is continuing her legacy of first by becoming the first Black woman President of the American Chemical Society. Dorothy Phillips is continuing her legacy of firsts by becoming the ...

The 2017 American College President Study from the American Council ... and Dean Gay has the potential to bring a fresh vision to Harvard as the first Black president of that university,” Cole told ...