Chisholm was the first African American woman elected to Congress in 1968, and the first woman and African American to run ...

Rep. Lisa Demuth became Minnesota’s first Black female House Speaker, sworn in by the state's first Black Senate President, ...

Angela Alsobrooks became Maryland’s first Black U.S. Senator in Jan. 2025 after holding elected office for 14 years in Prince ...

Saturday on Visions, Christie Ileto interviews Delaware's history-making senator, plus stories on Black educators, an ...

There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...

Located atop the Corcovado Mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Christ the Redeemer’s iconic status ranks as one of the ...

Mothers and advocates with the Black Women’s Roundtable gathered at the Capitol Thursday and called on the Legislature to ...

Linda McMahon was pressed on Black History Month observances and whether or not she would support more funding more HBCUs and ...

County officials in Springfield, Illinois, have agreed to pay $10 million to the family of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black ...

Lawmakers in Alabama's House have passed a bill expediting Medicaid for pregnant women in a state with one of the highest ...

Controversy over whether the Former Mayor of Taft, Lelia Foley Davis was in fact the first black female mayor in the United States.NewsChannel 8’s Rian Stockett ...

Seven senators are Hispanic, five are Black, three are Asian and one is Native American. Two Black women will serve simultaneously in the Senate for the first time in history: Democrats Angela ...