He spent two decades hosting the PBS series, during the formative years of personal computing. It was seen in more than 300 ...

The experiences and lives of Black women have often been overlooked in Hollywood, but in recent decades, this has thankfully begun to change. Women of color have made great strides in front of and ...

She was trying to prove the structure of the B form of DNA through mathematical computations and more than 100 hours of ...

Mansplaining has a way of showing up when no one asked for it, usually delivered with a level of confidence that doesn’t ...

I’m a big fan of photography. I’ve been doing it for years, and I know my way around a camera. But I can’t even count how many times, mostly when I was younger, a random man—always a man—stopped me ...

As of today, MTV will no longer air music videos—and of all the lists and round-ups published this past month, few, if any, ...

MEXICO CITY − On a perfect, sunny 75-degree day, a group of Black American women gathered at a sidewalk cafe over coffee and pastries to dish about dating, the affordability of weight loss medications ...

This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. When the unemployment rate for African American women hit nearly 7 percent in August, alarms went off ...

The US labor market has weakened over the course of the year as hiring has stalled across many industries. The national unemployment rate has ratcheted higher in the process, hitting 4.4% in September ...

A new bill will head to Congress to prevent women from being turned away or sent home from a hospital while in active labor, after a video circulated of a Black woman writhing in pain at an Indiana ...

Adrian Crane climbed mountains in Scotland with his father and uncle when he was a boy. He remembers using ice axes to climb in the winter when he was only 15. There is this “great feeling you get of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I tell stories about creating environments that empower everyone. Mercedes Swan, a career coach, reflected on what a difficult ...