In the mid-twentieth-century American South, Black women had limited access to medical services and maternal care. Many gave birth at...

Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), was a Black and enslaved poet who lived in the American Colonies during the Revolutionary War. Through her...

Icon of Arctic Explorer, Matthew A. Henson, depicting a person in a winter parka.

Before Rosa Parks, a Woman Refused to Give Up Her Seat In 1955, Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery,...