Prolonged heavy rains have caused deadly flooding across Southern Africa. Hundreds of people have reportedly been killed, ...

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It is no accident that Black women are being disproportionately affected by Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce. In the past 120 days, approximately 300,000 Black women have been forced out of the ...

Most Pennsylvania fishing license holders reside in the state's urban southeastern and southwestern regions. The number of women participating in fishing is increasing annually, supported by ...

Explore the visual legacy of Black women in hip-hop at Art Basel. Discover how our styles shaped cultural identity. Black women crafted hip-hop's foundational aesthetic, celebrating identity through ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Two Black pregnant women delivered in crisis after hospitals delayed emergency care, with one giving birth on an ...

A woman fishing off a remote island in the South Pacific couldn’t believe her eyes when she reeled in a conch shell that led to a surprise proposal. Cole Harrison and his girlfriend, Steph – who are ...

This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. When the unemployment rate for African American women hit nearly 7 percent in August, alarms went off ...

The holiday season represents work piling up, mounting pressures to shop and decorate and the added weight of having to pretend to be the one who “has it all together” at family gatherings. During ...

During years of scarce fish, African penguins crowd into the same areas as commercial fishing vessels, heightening competition for dwindling prey. A new metric called “overlap intensity” shows how ...

Tanya Myers and Ashley Price are on a mission to tackle divides in health care service delivery and access for Black women and girls. The duo founded Baltimore-based Shaping Health Equity (SHE) in ...

Cage fishing is slowly transforming the lives of some women who initially depended on the wild catch from Lake Victoria at Uyawi Beach in Bondo Sub-County. Depending on wild catch exposed them to many ...