black women

Ashleigh Johnson was the first Black woman to join the U.S. women’s national water polo team in 2016, and won gold in 2016 and 2020. At first, she didn’t dwell on the significance of her achievements, but eventually was able to embrace her Blackness. Johnson talks about coming into her own and the advice she gives to young athletes who...

DaCosta has made history, becoming the first Black female director to have a movie debut at No. 1 at the domestic box office, according to Deadline.

Last year when model Tanaye White saw herself in Sports Illustrated for the first time, she sobbed on the floor of a Barnes & Noble. “It was a whole moment.” This year White and Saje Nicole are in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue again, during of a historic run for the magazine – with three women of color on the cover...

Plans are underway to reinter the remains of American-born singer and dancer Josephine Baker at the Pantheon monument in Paris.

Beyoncé recently told Harper’s Bazaar that she has worked to heal from generational trauma. But what does that term mean? Howard University faculty member and psychiatrist Danielle Hairston explains, and says Queen Bey spreading awareness “has been very helpful.”

Black women are stepping up as Democratic candidates for governor and the U.S. Senate as the party looks to expand its footprint in Sun Belt battlegrounds

Uterine fibroids that can cause chronic pain and disrupt pregnancy plans disproportionately affect Black women, and research that would help women and girls is underfunded, experts say.

The emotional struggle Meghan Markle detailed in her explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey triggered a conversation among Black women about the bias they experience in the workplace around the hashtag #BlackWomenAtWork. Christina Coleman, a communications strategist, joined LX News host Ashley Holt to discuss why this is such a common struggle for Black women and how their white co-workers can...

Amber Ruffin is finally the boss. The writer and comedian is now behind the desk of her own Peacock and NBC variety show, “The Amber Ruffin Show,” and helping to break some boundaries in a genre that’s been dominated by white men since the days of Ed Sullivan. Ruffin talked to NBCLX about working her way up in television as...

There will be no Black women in the Senate once Sen. Kamala Harris leaves the chamber to become vice president. Political strategist Atima Omara and Rev. Leah Daughtry, a former CEO of the Democratic National Convention Committee, joined LX News to discuss the lack of representation of Black women, what it means for democracy and its ties to institutional racism.

A diverse group of women joined LX News host Ashley Holt to discuss the historic election of Kamala Harris to the vice presidency and what it means to them, and all women in America.

New “Real Housewives of New York” star Eboni K. Williams shared an unfiltered and tearful reaction to Kamala Harris’ historic vice presidential election on social media this weekend. The attorney and TV host joined LX News to talk about her own barrier-breaking role as the first Black star of ‘RHONY” and her new podcast “Holding Court.”

The CROWN Act stands for Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair. Congresswoman Marcia Fudge shares the emotional personal stories of hair discrimination that drove her to help introduce this legislation on behalf of Black women.

Emmy-winning actress Laverne Cox pulled back the curtain on “Bad Hair” on Hulu, her new horror-comedy about a haunted hair weave, which she says recounts the horror of white supremacy and false beauty standards for Black women.

Ko Bragg, a reporter for the 19th, breaks down how suffragette is still a work in process in the fight for equal rights for Black and transgender women.

After Joe Biden announced Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate this week, there was a small segment that questioned her biracial identity. Culture critic Nadra Nittle sets the record straight.

Beyonce’s latest visual album, “Black is King,” dropped on Disney Plus on Friday. Danielle Belton, the editor-in-chief of The Root, says she’s created a unique artistic representation of women and people of color.

Black women have long been the Democratic Party’s most reliable and loyal voters, but for generations that allegiance didn’t translate to their own political rise

Andrea Ritchie of the Barnard Center for Research on Women says Black women are more likely to be killed by police than Black men, as evidenced by the shooting of Breonna Taylor. She says Breonna’s Law, while a positive step, doesn’t do enough to protect them.