Trent’s extraordinary life experience — having to teach herself to read as a child, being married off at about age 11 to a man who ... disease among women and girls in Africa.

This piece is part of an ongoing series on the unsung women of history. Read more here. In 1862, a young woman stood at a podium at Oberlin College and gave a graduation address, just like every ...

A 55-year-old woman has been honored 38 years after her Illinois high school failed to make her its first Black valedictorian ... a White student at her 1984 graduation. In the years before ...