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National Council of Negro Women to donate teddy bears to children at Dayton Children’s
WHIO via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Dayton chapter of the National Council of Negro Women will donate teddy bears to help comfort...
Inaugural 'National Council of Negro Women Day' celebrated this week in Victorville
Victorville Daily Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe High Desert Section of the National Council of Negro Women will celebrate the first annual...
Mary McLeod Bethune, known as the ‘First Lady of Negro America,’ also sought to unify the African...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoEducator Mary McLeod Bethune regularly wrote of her travels abroad. Robert Abbott Sengstacke via...
Doll drive gives Black foster children ‘something to love’ while supporting laws to protect moms
Sacramento Bee via AOL· 2 months agoThe table overflowed with hundreds of dolls that would soon find homes in the arms of Sacramento...
Sexism almost sidelined Black women at 1963 March on Washington. How they fought back.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 10 months agoWASHINGTON − As the preliminary program for the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom came...
Queens of the Court: Black women tennis pioneers paved way for modern superstars
USA TODAY Sports via Yahoo Sports· 1 year agoIn February for Black History Month, USA TODAY Sports is publishing the series “28 Black Stories in...
‘Welcome to the Queendom’: Mother’s Day Tea a celebration that will also encourage self-care
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOver 100 years ago, Congress passed a law designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. A...
The women who stood with Martin Luther King Jr. and sustained a movement for social change
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 5 months agoWomen listen during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images...
Here's how Greenville nonprofits are working together to increase turnout among young voters
Greenville News via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA coalition of non-partisan organizations around the Upstate are banding together to encourage voter...
Dishing up history: Chicago woman donates 'priceless' collection of cookbooks to culinary program
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBouillabaisse is a dish best made for a crowd, so maybe it's no surprise that after decades of...