African-American Shakespeare Company's annual holiday production of "Cinderella" in San Francisco's Herbst Theatre on Dec. 20-22 has been reenvisioned. This year, the young maid breaking free from her ...

Nasa began recruiting some college-educated African American women in the 1940s as "human computers", but they experienced both racial and gender discrimination at work. Mary Jackson was recruited ...

Initially, workforce needs were focused on provision of care to poor and working class women, but by the late ... still delivering a large number of African American women in the South.

and registered traditional African American midwives. Others obtained administrative positions in hospital obstetric services, where they made hospital birth more woman and family centered.