Overall, 139 of today’s senators and representatives identify as Black, Hispanic, Asian American or Native American.

Collins made history as the fourth African American woman in Congress and the first to represent the Midwest. Prior to her ...

A one-woman show coming to West Philly tells the story of a woman often left out of history books: Shirley Chisholm, the first African American to run for a major party’s presidential nomination and ...

including the first Native American women to serve in Congress and the first African-American women to represent Illinois and Massachusetts in the House, respectively. As with gender, the gains in ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license. Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination.

Pressley took over the mantle of the historic legislation that has been introduced in every session of Congress since 1989.