Black Women

Black men were among the least likely to say a Black woman was a good VP pick.

For me, as a Black physician, disappointment can feel like I have let a whole community down. I sometimes fear I am perpetuating the very inequities I strive to correct.

There's been so much in my life that has been unexpected. In 2015, I met President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama in Washington. And in 2018, I sang a song with the Oakland Symphony before a full house.

"We're in the middle of a revolution. We're in the middle of a reckoning," Janelle Monáe told Newsweek.

While out for a jog at the beach, a woman called the police on three Black joggers, claiming she was attacked. One of the women filmed her, making racist generalizations.

Over a 40-year career, that means that black women make $946,120 less than white men, according to the National Women's Law Center.

In the feature, Toni Morrison discussed her childhood, her work and how she felt about being called a "black writer." "Of course I'm a black writer. That's like saying Dostoevsky's not a Russian writer."

"He has to recognize that's a problem," Santorum said. "He shouldn't do it."

As I look to the future, I am hopeful that through research, we will see an end to the fear of breast cancer.

She has been dubbed the "human computer" and was featured in in the 2016 movie Hidden Figures.

A 2018 report on college debt found women comprise nearly two-thirds of the staggering $1.4 trillion of total debt.

Women were instrumental in the black nationalist movement.

After Doug Jones's historic upset in Alabama, Americans are thanking black women. What they should be doing, political activists say, is electing them to office.

A second look at CDC data shows that racial disparity in health starts in the earliest days of life.