GEORGIA (WALB) - On this day in 1992, Cynthia McKinney made history as the first African-American woman elected to Congress ...

Donald Trump’s first joint address to Congress as the 47th president of the United States on Tuesday night was met with resistance from Democrats on Capitol Hill. But it’s the elected Black members, ...

More Black women have been elected to state legislatures over the last decade, creating a pipeline to Congress and other offices, a new report found.

Rosa Parks: First Statue of African-American Female to Grace Capitol Feb. 27, 2013 -- intro: Rosa Parks, the civil rights pioneer, made history again today by becoming the first African American woman ...

Mia Love, the former Utah representative who served as the first Black Republican woman in Congress, died Sunday at age 49. The daughter of Haitian immigrants, she made history by representing Utah’s ...

WASHINGTON ‒ In a rare congressional effort crossing party lines, Democratic and Republican lawmakers are calling for funding for a new women’s history museum on the National Mall that would join ...

For the last four years, the U.S. Mint issued five new quarters each year with an American woman on the reverse side. Former Rep. Barbara Lee, (D-Calif.-12), introduced the Circulating Collectible ...