The death toll from flooding that cut access to over half of the Congolese capital of Kinshasa has reached 33 as authorities ...

Eleanor Rubin's first brush with fame and activism came unexpectedly during the 1942 Dietrich film 'The Lady Is Willing.' ...

On the anniversary of her birth in 1871, we celebrate Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke, the pioneering South African activist known ...

Panther women to WBITThe Northern Iowa women will play third-seeded Florida in the first round of the WBIT (Women’s Basketball Invitational Tournament) Thursday in Gainesville, Fla, at 7 p.m ...

This week we recommend a new exhibition in the home of Sigmund Freud, an action comedy about a man who feels no pain and the ...

Ofelia Opocué’s life has been shaped by loss, she says. Twenty-three years ago, the FARC gave her family an ultimatum: leave ...

The memoirs of the Central African revolutionary Andrée Blouin tell the story of a woman who witnessed firsthand the ecstatic ...

Pharrell Williams has curated a show of Black artists at Perrotin Paris, including Carrie Mae Weems, Zanele Muholi, and Nina ...

For Women’s History Month, I wanted to highlight Victoria Woodhull, who wrote a letter to the New York Herald in 1870 announcing that she was running for president. At the time, women were not allowed ...

Senator Dr. Rasha Kelej congratulates the winners of their SONG Awards 2023 and launch the Song Awards for 2025 ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo - The leader of Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Congo said on Thursday that a call by Kinshasa and Kigali for an immediate ceasefire "doesn't concern us" as ...