America’s first Black female doctor also faced open hostility from the white medical ... believed to be the first medical text by an African American author. The book focused on maternal and child ...

A new book will focus on South Carolina's first African American female physician.

Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license. Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination.

As a therapist and African American woman, I cherish and recognize the importance of diversity in the therapeutic process. I understand that stress and anxiety can feel suffocating, and taking the ...

Rebecca Lee Crumpler's gravestone was only installed in 2020, 125 years after her death in 1895. John Tlumacki / The Boston Globe via Getty Images In 1864, newspapers in Boston noted a milestone ...