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The first all-Black women’s boat will race the Head of the Charles Regatta. The team was organized by the hosts of the popular podcast “Rowing in Color.” Hannah Donnelly caught up with the women about their hopes for the historic race.

Hannah talks with three of the women who are a part of the first all-Black women’s team competing in the famous Head of the Charles Regatta this weekend.

Black-white disparities exist in fertility medicine and are reflected in life-and-death outcomes for babies.

Tracye McQuirter is trying to change the hearts, minds, and diets of Black women around the globe with her 10 Million Black Vegan Women Movement.

A bill aimed at banning race-based discrimination targeting hair texture and hairstyles was unanimously approved Thursday by the Massachusetts House.

“I think we all understand that people in this country don’t experience life or law in the same way,” says Tiffany Jeffers, a professor at Georgetown University’s law school. With the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Black woman, to the Supreme Court, the historically white court might hear new perspectives, Jeffers says. Jackson, a former clerk for retiring Justice...

Laila doesn’t remember the exact moment she learned that she’s much more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women. Growing up in Atlanta, the 33-year-old was surrounded by Black women, who often spoke about the risks that people who look like her face while giving birth. (Laila requested to be referred to by her first name to...

President Joe Biden is nodding to his most stalwart supporters in promising to nominate a Black woman for the new vacancy on the Supreme Court.

Rochelle Ballantyne navigates Marshall Chess Club in New York City like it’s her own home. With a hasty New Yorker stride, she weaves through the narrow, wooden hallways of the club to the back room, where newer chess players hesitate to go. She plops down her belongings on an unused chess desk, headphones on, and shovels a few bites...

There’s a culture of playing chess within the Black community, but for a long time, Black players, especially Black women, haven’t felt welcome in mainstream, competitive spaces. NBCLX storyteller Mackenzie Behm explores the lives of several young chess players, the opportunities the game has provided them — and why chess history is about to be made.

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.”