African American women are helping to shape academia — as professors, researchers, deans, and college and university presidents.

She was the first Black woman to graduate from Penn's medical school in 1964 and recently shared how she made the most of her opportunities. There is a lot of laughter at tea time at the Simpson ...

What Grandmother Moon knows: Inheritance, resilience and future (CNY Inspirations) Mar. 16, 2025, 1:00 p.m. How to watch ...

More than 100 years after Charlotte Ray became the first African American woman to graduate from a U.S. law school, challenges remain for Black women in the legal profession, panelists said at the web ...

Born on May 21, 1913, to the Egba family of the Lagos lawyer Olawolu Moore, Lady Kofoworola Ademola was a Nigerian ...

JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - A graduate of Arkansas State University, Shunqetta Cunningham, runs a program named Over-A-Cup that instructs Black women on how to become entrepreneurs. She holds monthly ...

Lady Kofoworola Ademola was a pioneer in African education and a relentless advocate for women’s rights. Born on May ...