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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]
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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 ...
Shirley Anita Chisholm ( / ˈtʃɪzəm / CHIZ-əm; née St. Hill; November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress. [ 1] Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional district, a district centered in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn [ a ...
Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992. Jemison joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1987 and was selected to serve for the STS-47 ...
The organization has its roots in the Coalition of 100 Black Women, founded in New York City in 1970 by Edna Beach and 23 other African-American women. [2] [3] Jewell Jackson McCabe, [4] one of the original founders, became President of the New York chapter in 1977 and set out to create a national coalition.
The sexual objectification of Black women redefined their bodies as "sites of wild, unrestrained sexuality", [29] insatiably eager to engage in sexual activity and become pregnant. In reality, enslaved Black women were reduced to little more than breeding stock, frequently coerced and sexually assaulted by white men. [30]