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Opinion: Native American women are at high risk for violence. Act now.
Honoring the work to respond to Murdered Missing Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) is both heavy and rewarding when ...
City mourns Mobile native and first African American woman to serve as US Secretary of Labor
The first African American woman to serve as the United States Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman died at the age of 77 on ...
Record numbers of Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native women elected to state legislatures
Record numbers of Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Native women are serving in state legislatures this year, but remain ...
Ovarian cancer test may not work on some Black, Native American patients
A new study focusing on the common CA-125 blood test found that some populations didn’t show elevated markers at diagnosis ...
A natural mentor, Cynthia J. Ayers remembered as first Black woman elected judge in Marion County
Judge Cynthia J. Ayers, the first elected Black woman judge on the Marion County Superior Court bench, died April 19 at age ...
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Crime novelist explores missing, murdered Indigenous women crisis in “Where They Last Saw Her”
Marcie Rendon, author of “Where They Last Saw Her,” spoke at the Muir Library in Winnebago in southern Minnesota last Tuesday ...
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City mourns Mobile native and first African American woman to serve as US Secretary of Labor
(WALA) - The first African American woman to serve as the United States Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman died at the age of 77 on Friday. As a Mobile native ... was the first black politician ...
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Record numbers of Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native women elected to state legislatures
Nearly 400 Black women are serving in statehouses this ... and women who identify as Native American, Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian hold 44 seats, up from the record 36 set in 2023.