Democrat Becca Balint has won the race for Vermont’s lone seat in the U.S. House, becoming the first woman and first openly gay person to represent the state in Congress. Balint, the president of the…
In the pivotal early months of World War II, as Hitler’s armies tore through Europe, a part-time crime writer and mother of two in Swarthmore, Pa., came across a Reader’s Digest article with the headline,…
Twenty-four days after her son’s swollen body was found in the Tallahatchie River, tied to a cotton-gin fan and bound in barbed wire, Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley made up her mind to travel deep into the…
Nicole Mann has become the first Native American woman in space as she lifted off in command of a flight to the International Space Station on Wednesday that also included the first Russian to join a US space…
A new doll from Barbie’s inspiring women series will honor Madam C.J. Walker, whose hair-care business made her the first documented self-made female millionaire.
Nina Otero-Warren advocated for New Mexico to ratify the 19th Amendment and was the first Latina to run for Congress. She’ll soon be featured as part of the American Women Quarters Program.
The NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders have hired the first Black female team president in the league’s history. Sandra Douglass Morgan, a Las Vegas native, is not new to firsts. She was the first Black city…