When a toxic waste disaster unfolded in the 1970s, a White housewife became the face of the movement. Down the street, Black ...

To be a Black mother is to walk through this world with the weight of history in one hand and the hope for the future in the other. It is to mother through joy and struggle, often simultaneously ...

Every mom deserves to be showered with love and appreciation (and gifts) on Mother’s Day – Black moms especially deserve it. Ideally, we’d shower mamas with love every day of the year ...

Black women face a maternal mortality rate of 50.3 deaths per 100,000 live births, compared to 14.5 for white women. These are not just statistics—they are mothers, sisters, daughters ...

It was the fourth time organizers held the "Black Mother's March on the White House," a rally and protest organizers said was to help expose injustices faced in African American communities.

"We want our kids to embrace their roots and love who they are, just as any parent would," Mariyah Gerber told Newsweek.

I speak Black Church. That is my mother tongue. It is the language I learned at the feet of my grandmother, church mothers, and elders. It is the language I learned in the storefront church of my ...