When Dr. Faith Ohuoba, a board-certified OB-GYN in Houston, Texas, noticed swelling in her legs after delivering her baby via ...

Black Maternal Health Week raises awareness and advocates for the improvement of maternal health outcomes within the African American community.

Jenelle Ambrose Dash, a lawyer and maternal health advocate, turned personal tragedy into a powerful movement for Black ...

It’s a complex issue, and not one that can be solved overnight: Black women’s higher breast cancer mortality rate compared to ...

Black women are potentially three times more likely to get peripartum cardiomyopathy — a kind of heart failure.

This experience sparked her interest in styling hair and braiding, a passion she transformed into a career. In 2018, King ...

Mills, a junior at the all-female HBCU, won with her platform of "Authentically Blue."  Through the motto, she strengthened ...

Black women authors have created an extraordinary ... “Push,” published in 1996, presents the harrowing yet ultimately hopeful story of Precious Jones, an illiterate teenager who survives ...

She’d been told that she was among 10 finalists, but she’d forsworn any hope of victory. After all, in the 92 years since Texas first bestowed that honorific, no other Black woman had ever ...

She supported former President Barack Obama, energized by the Democrat’s message of “hope and change ... in her status as the first Black woman to lead California’s Republican Party.

Annual event mixes anxiety with celebration, one potential soldier holds amulet in mouth in hope of avoiding draft.