Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th century ...

When he was 10, she noticed he was wheezing. She took him to a hospital and learned he had asthma, a chronic condition that ...

The culture wars are heating up the stacks as more than a third of the books banned during the 2023-2024 school year featured ...

That is until Indianpolis’ first Black library was opened at John Hope School 26. “People can go, ‘Oh, well what about white libraries?’” said Maurice Broaddus, an award-winning author.

I was supposed to give a book talk about civil rights at the Jimmy Carter Library. I think I know why the invitation was ...

Members of the Charleston County Public Library Board of Trustees ... among developed countries, with black women facing more than double the death rate of white women. I’ve always dreamed ...

Stark Library is celebrating Black history, and particularly that ... "In 1947, Canton city government was a white man's world when Esther Archer became the first African American woman to be ...

Dr. Carla Hayden, the first Black Librarian of Congress, faces uncertainty in her reappointment next year due to political tensions and the Republican Senate.

She is 96 and was one of the first Black female homeowners in Pacific Palisades. After the fire, she is starting over.

While there are already skyrocketing disparities in women's healthcare, Black women experience these effects at heightened rates due to their race and preconceived stereotypes that continue to affect ...

Pritzker was an architecture aficionado who played a role in the creation of several cultural touchstones in Chicago.

In 1968, he became the first Black person to serve in the Legislature since Reconstruction. Shunned by colleagues at first, ...