A 10-year-old girl in Texas was deported back to Mexico while undergoing life-saving brain cancer treatment, despite being an American citizen. The girl and four of her siblings, along with their ...

By Cailin Riley Four years ago, London Bess came to Natasha Jeffries with an idea. She wanted to start a “Black Girl Magic” ...

Set in Lorain, Ohio — where Morrison herself was born — the book tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old African American girl who is convinced that she is ugly, and yearns to ...

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.