Sherry Lansing smashed the ultimate glass ceiling in 1980. She became the first female president of a major Hollywood studio, ...

Black women are flocking to Mexico City. USA TODAY National Columnist Suzette Hackney went there to find out why.

In 1969, Black educators and students at Kent State University proposed the month of February to be celebrated as Black History Month. The first ever celebration took place at Kent State University a ...

Only one American woman in politics, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, made Forbes’s 2025 list of most powerful women. Wiles, the White House’s first female chief of staff, is ranked 66th on the ...

The woman reportedly feared for her life as she was forced into a detention center upon arriving to Ghana. A West African woman reportedly tried to commit suicide after being deported to a non-native ...

The Trump administration tried to deport a Native American woman. Leticia Jacobo, a 24-year-old member of the Arizona Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, was booked into the Polk County Jail in ...

African artists are having a moment on the global stage. And Tems? Baby… she is undeniably leading that charge. The British-Nigerian artist has spent the last few years racking up (and I truly mean ...

Strolling from her apartment in Southern France’s Occitanie region to Place aux Herbes — the historic main square in the tiny town of Uzès — for coffee has become a daily ritual for Julie Neis. She ...

Three Americans—Natosha Rogers, Dakotah Popehn, and Gabi Rooker—secured top 10 finishes at the 2025 Chicago Marathon, with Rogers and Popehn both setting personal bests in the process. Rogers, 34, was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim McClimon writes about philanthropy and corporate responsibility. September 22 is American Business Women’s Day when we ...

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Former Rep. Mary Rose Oakar, the first Arab American woman in Congress and a political casualty of the 1992 House banking scandal, died on Sept. 13 in Lakewood, Ohio. She was 85. A Democrat from ...