According to WWD, Wales Bonner was appointed as menswear creative director at Hermès, making her the first Black woman to lead design at a major European luxury fashion house. The announcement from ...

The installation, organized by the Center for African American Art, stands as a milestone in the museum’s evolving ...

The Springfield museum at the entrance to Oak Ridge Cemetery has reopened after a 16-month hiatus. One of the museum's new exhibits was created by a former Hollywood set designer. The museum's board ...

Two new books, on Kwame Nkrumah’s promise and Idi Amin’s tyranny, capture the soaring hopes and bitter aftermath of Africa’s ...

The Yale department that studies people of African descent in the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America has changed its name to the Black Studies Department, after 55 years of being called ...

(RNS) — W. James Abbington Jr., an expert on Black religious music known for his editing, teaching and playing of congregational music, has died at the age of 65. GIA Publications, for whom he worked ...

Banks and payment companies have been fighting to capture small business banking customers, and for American Express' Group President of Global Merchant Network Services Anna Marrs, much of last year ...

The picture is even worse for specific subsets of women. The share of mothers of young children in the labor market fell almost 3 percentage points in the first half of the year. Unemployment for ...

Julia Child didn’t grow up dreaming of becoming America’s favorite cooking teacher. She was born in 1912 and was raised on meat-and-potatoes meals in Pasadena before spending most of her early life ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A history-making woman in the United States military has strong ties to Colorado. Cathay Williams was born to her free father and enslaved mother in Missouri in 1844. During her youth ...

A Texas man conducted a fraudulent, unregistered offering involving membership interests in an investment vehicle for foreign currency exchange trading, raising over $1 million from at least 67 ...