Welcome to this week’s ForbesWomen newsletter, which every Thursday brings news about the world’s top female entrepreneurs, ...
Black History Month honors the achievements and contributions of African Americans to the country every February.
Black History Month wasn’t always a monthlong celebration. In February 1926, historian and author Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week. It was a weeklong celebration in an effort to teach ...
Beyonce says she’s always been country. Now, with "Cowboy Carter," she’s nominated for 11 Grammys and the first Black woman to top country music charts. How Beyonce fits into the long history of Black ...
Four police officers arrested in connection with the escape of illegal mining kingpin James “Tiger” Tsoaeli in Stilfontein, North West, have been granted bail. Tsoaeli resurfaced from a shaft at the ...
An African-American woman has inspired many on social media after sharing a story of how she dropped out of school in the US to open a restaurant in Ghana.
Sen. Jim Banks sends a letter to Marco Rubio asking him to investigate reports that a foreign aid agency pushed abortion on ...
From the young woman brutally murdered and dismembered in a short-term rental apartment to the Olympic runner set on fire by her estranged boyfriend, a surge in violence against women in Kenya has ...
A South African woman made history as she was crowned the first Black woman to win the Mrs. World pageant. Tshego Gaelae ...
Belle da Costa Greene, who was JP Morgan’s librarian, became a lively fixture at Gilded Age mansions, country retreats, ...
A collective of women farmers in Ghana are aiming to break free from an economic model that has historically enriched ...
A West Papuan advocacy group is calling for an urgent international inquiry into allegations that Indonesian security forces have used the chemical weapon white phosphorus against West Papuans for a ...