The struggle for inclusion and diversity in politics has ensued for decades, but for the first time in U.S. history, the rising political power of black women took center stage in the 2018 election.

Visitation will be at 1:00 PM December 13th at The Hamil Family Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM, Monday, December 13th at The Hamil Family Funeral Home With Charlie Jones ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Stanton College Preparatory School freshman, Jayah Peoples, 15, created a portrait of the first Black female judge in the United States as Duval County's first elected Black ...

Her standing in Poughkeepsie : family lineage and legacy -- On her own : the years at Wellesley and Yale -- Politics of preparation : the making of the nation's first African American woman judge -- ...

Jane Bolin, who became the first black female judge in the United States when she was sworn in by New York City Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1939, has died. She was 98. Bolin’s death Monday in New ...

"I stand on the shoulders of many who have come before me," Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson declared in her opening statement at her confirmation hearing to potentially become the first Black woman ...

Jane Bolin made history over and over. She was the first Black woman to graduate from Yale Law School. The first Black woman to join the New York City Bar Association. The nation’s first Black female ...

UPDATE: This original report from Feb. 18 has been updated to reflect the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson on Friday, Feb. 25. President Joe Biden on Friday announced his nomination of Ketanji ...

Exactly one week ago today, Wellesley College announced the appointment of its 14th president, Paula A. Johnson. There is obviously no list of “14ths,” but Johnson, a physician whose work has stood at ...

A new heroine was presented Sunday afternoon at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Museum for the second annual Martin Luther King Jr. Program sponsored by the Afro-American Historical ...

Jane Bolin Aug. 6, 1926 – Jan. 31, 2014 Resident of Moraga Jane Bolin died on Friday, January 31, after a long illness. Jane was born in Mansfield, Missouri in the Ozark Mountains to Horace (Jake) and ...