My Fellow Black Women,

We, as a people, love “firsts”—even when we recognize that they are long overdue. This week, many have been…

Can the White House be won back in November? There are admittedly obstacles to face in the next 88 days, but one…

The nation’s largest resource for women in politics is recognizing a rising force in the political world. On…

Later this summer, Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden will announce his running mate—and it’s widely presumed…

Racial disparities in maternal care have been an issue for decades—and for decades, many politicians were content…

As Trump continued his whitewashing of America on Tuesday night’s State of the Union, many of the Democratic women…

As black folks throughout the world can attest, white people far too often have an extreme degree of difficulty…

For many news cycles now, Stacey Abrams has told us one thing: No, I don’t want the presidency, not now. But that…

It’s a word that trails women and people of color like a stray dog: “electability”—a word that’s become a catch-all…

“Why are you wearing all black?” I asked my friend, noticing her wearing a long sleeve black shirt, black jeans and…

Unita Blackwell, a veteran of the civil rights movement and winner of a MacArthur “genius” grant who was the first…

Activist icon Angela Davis and Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) spearheaded a rally Tuesday in…

On a sunny Saturday morning in one of Chicago’s trendiest neighborhoods (Fulton Market in the West Loop), passersby…

No matter which way the wind blows in Chicago today, voters will make history by electing a black woman mayor.

By the time Tennessee representative London Lamar tells me she’s “a softy and a sweet person,” she had already…

In a posh ballroom overlooking Central Park on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, a hushed roomful of state and local…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—When Maya Rupert walked into then-Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro’s office…

When Ayanna Pressley got her Senegalese twists done for the first time about three years ago, it was a moment of…

Don’t ask Yara Shahidi to choose between being an ingenue and a serious intellectual; the 18-year-old is already one…