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 have made considerable gains – and helped to change the face of U.S ...

Officials at Rutgers University have named William F. Tate IV the 22nd president of the university. Tate, a renowned social ...

Shirley Chisholm made history as the first black woman to run for U.S. president. In her groundbreaking ... women of color in the highest echelons of American political life.

“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 ...

In honor of the current history-making 2024 election, as Kamala Harris runs to become the first African-American President of the ... America’s first Black Congresswoman, Chisholm, broke ...

Carla Hayden, the first African American and woman to lead the Library of Congress, was dismissed without explanation.