Celebrating Black History Month

Growing up with a speech impediment and an auditory processing disorder, Amanda had hills to climb. Through poetry, she found her voice, and became...

I can hear change hummingIn its loudest, proudest song.I don't fear change coming,And so I sing along. In this stirring, much anticipated picture b...

We all know Oprah Winfrey as a talk-show host, actress, producer, media mogul, and philanthropist, but the "Queen of Talk" wasn't always so fortuna...

Maya Angelou spent much of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas. After a traumatic event at the age of eight, she stopped speaking for five years. How...

Rosa Parks grew up in Alabama, where she learned to stand up for herself at an early age. Rosa wont on to become a civil-rights activist whose cour...

Little Michelle grew up on the South-Side of Chicago in a loving, connected family. After her father was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Michell...

In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights prote...

Born in Missouri in 1928, Maya Angelou had a difficult childhood. Jim Crow laws segregated blacks and whites in the South. Her family life was unst...

Meet History's trailblazers and get inspired by the true stories of people who changed the world. In August, 2016, American gymnast Simone Biles wo...

On November 7, 2020, Kamala Harris, a senator from California, became the first woman and the first African-American and South Asian-American perso...

Barbie's Inspiring Women Series pays tribute to incredible heroines of their time; courageous women who took risks, changed rules and paved the way...

As a kid, Mae looked up at the stars and knew that she would go there one day. But she couldn't understand why there weren't any astronauts who loo...