For elementary school teacher, Monique Duncan, writing a book illustrating the remarkable ways enslaved Africans used hair styles to guide their way to freedom, was a dream come true.

Women make up 28% of voting members in the 119th Congress – on par with their share in the last Congress, but a considerable ...

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Rare book collector Rebecca Romney takes us behind the archives that led to "Jane Austen's Bookshelf," a new book about the women writers who shaped Austen.

They're the Forty Elephants, a real gang led by the charismatic Mary Carr (Erin Doherty), who pilfer the prized possessions ...

Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...

Operating since the late 1800s, the Forty Elephants were a female-led crime syndicate originating from the Elephant and ...

Based on the book, Dope Girls: The Birth of The British Drug Underground by Marek Kohn, the name alone suggests that the ...

Dope Girls is a new historical drama on the BBC, and some viewers might be wondering if it's based on a true story ...

As shown in the Stephen Graham boxing drama, the Forty Elephants shoplifted from Harrods, blackmailed MPs – and died utterly ...

More than a century ago, two all-Black hotel teams, including one for The Breakers, competed in Palm Beach and beyond.

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