mainly African American women of West African descent. A DNA-based tool used to estimate lifetime cancer risk, known as the polygenic risk score (PRS), proved ineffective at identifying the ...

Dr. Carla D. Hayden was the first African American and the first woman to serve as the head of the Library of Congress. Her firing drew a furious response from Democrats. By Tim Balk The Trump ...

She’s the first woman and first African American to fill the role. Carla Hayden had been targeted by right-wing groups for pushing so-called woke books for children, like books that promote ...

A new statue is turning heads in Times Square. The 12-foot tall bronze sculpture was unveiled last week. In the bustling ...

The opera “Treemonisha,” unique in multiple respects, still has an important message for the world 100 years after it was ...

Everett’s novel was honored at the 2025 awards, along with other books in the categories of fiction, general nonfiction, ...

Jordan Berman: A late 20s gay, Jewish man looking for love. Laura: A late 20s New York woman. Vanessa: A late 20s African ...

Learn about the many ways diplomat, activist, and 2023 American Women Quarters honoree Eleanor ... Roosevelt’s willingness to fly with an African American pilot had great symbolic value and ...

BWL is a nonprofit corporation formed in 1975 after a small group of Los Angeles-based African American women judges and attorneys held a luncheon meeting to discuss the marked absence of an ...

I’m African American, it’s an African American woman statue. So just seeing another piece for me to stop and have a moment with was very powerful to me.” “Coming from a person of color ...

She was the first woman and the first African American to serve in the position. Her firing comes days after she testified before the Senate Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee and the ...

The finalists in fiction were “Headshot” by Rita Bullwinkel ... itself apart over which books should be banned and how African American history should be taught. ... What better moment ...