In 1935, Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women, an “organization of organizations” to unify African American women’s organizations under one major umbrella. The Mary McLeod Bethune ...

Good morning and welcome to Newsweek's summary of how Tuesday's national and international newspapers covered the Inauguration. The Times of India led with President Donald Trump's promise to enact ...

I don’t know many people who wouldn’t have loved to be on-site for the first miracle that Jesus performed while ... Jesus said to her, “Dear woman, why do you involve me?...My time has not yet come” ...

The Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards program is designed to support early-stage businesses that are focused on a range of social, economic and environmental development issues. The first-place ...

Virginia Foxx, 81, was tapped by House Speaker Mike Johnson to serve as the chairwoman of the powerful House Rules Committee, two GOP sources told ABC News, becoming the only woman to lead a House ...

According to medieval Jewish folklore, Lilith is a demon who was Adam's first wife before Eve. But where did this idea come from? Dive into the 4,000-year-long history of Lilith, the terrifying ...

The Society of Biblical Literature, which remains to this day the leading professional group in the field, was founded in 1880, and inducted its first woman member in 1894. But the relative ...

A young woman is cancer-free after undergoing the UK’s first ever liver transplant for advanced bowel cancer. Bianca Perea, a 32-year-old trainee lawyer from Manchester, was told by doctors her ...

OU women’s basketball coach Jennie Baranczyk said she was looking forward to how her team would respond to Thursday night’s loss to Texas. The Sooners answered the challenge, handing Tennessee its ...

It was a first for Oklahoma, but doubly so, when the first women were elected to serve in the 1920-22 Legislature. Bessie Simison McColgin was the first woman elected to the Oklahoma House of ...