November is Native American Heritage Month, and the fall has brought an embarrassment of great new books by Native American authors.

Rhiannon Giddens announces new children's book celebrating the various contributions Black women have made to country music.

Designing Motherhood illuminates how design shapes diverse experiences of parenthood, from navigating fertility and conception to pregnancy, birth, and postpartum life.

These are some of the women behind the technologies that make our modern world go round, from WiFi to windshield wipers.

One community of inventors focused on improving individual office workers’ tools of creation. Venerable quill pens gave way ...

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But I was always wondering like, what else could they be talking about if they weren’t talking about these dates quite so much?” Her reflections led her to her latest and second novel, “The Wilderness ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Sherri Shepherd called out ‘Saturday Night Live’ for having no Black female cast members after Ego Nwodim left, ...

After seven seasons, Nwodim announced she would be leaving the sketch comedy show ahead of the season 51 premiere. By Carly Thomas Associate Editor The actress and comedian said on Monday’s episode of ...

The “Angry Black Woman” stereotype is a long-standing, deeply rooted caricature that portrays Black women as overly hostile, aggressive, difficult, irrational, or “too strong” in their emotions. It ...

Though Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, has seen an exodus of Black residents over the past 15 years, one woman hopes to create a beacon for her community. By Dodai Stewart Photographs and Video by Nicky ...

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has acquired the jazz great’s scores, original artwork, letters and more, providing a rare glimpse of an imaginative mind. By Hank Shteamer For ...