Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Black women are three times more likely to develop uterine fibroids. Lupus is two-three times more common in women of color, but more specifically, one in every 537 Black women will have lupus. [ 45] Black women are also at a higher chance of being overweight thus making them open to more obesity-related diseases. [ 46]
United States Senate. Carol Moseley Braun was the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Senate, 1993. Laphonza Butler is the first Black LGBT person to serve in the U.S. Senate, 2023. Kamala Harris was the first African-American U.S. senator to be elected vice president of the United States.
Black power. Black feminism is a branch of feminism that focuses on the African-American woman's experiences and recognizes the intersectionality of racism and sexism . Black feminism philosophy centers on the idea that "Black women are inherently valuable, that liberation is a necessity not as an adjunct to somebody else's but because of our ...
The Free Black Women's Library. The Free Black Women's Library is an organization that hosts a mobile library based primarily in New York City, and is focused on sharing literature written by Black women. It was founded by the Nigerian American Ola Ronke Akinmowo in Brooklyn in 2015.
The following is a list of notable African-American women who have made contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.. An excerpt from a 1998 issue of Black Issues in Higher Education by Juliane Malveaux reads: "There are other reasons to be concerned about the paucity of African American women in science, especially as scientific occupations are among the ...
The American Women's Suffrage movement began in the north as a middle-class white woman's movement with most of their members educated white women primarily from Boston, New York, Maine, and the Northeast. Attempts were made by the National Women's Suffrage Association (NWSA) to include working-class women, as well as black suffragists.
Free Negro. Free woman of color with quadroon daughter (also free); late 18th-century collage painting, New Orleans. In the British colonies in North America and in the United States before the abolition of slavery in 1865, free Negro or free Black described the legal status of African Americans who were not enslaved.
African-American women lawyers in the United States face "dual discrimination" for being both Black and women. [ 1] As of 2022, less than 1% of law firm partners were Black women. [ 2] To fight against discrimination, Black women lawyers have founded numerous advocacy organizations. For example, the Black Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater ...