We've spent quite a bit of time exploring art in other people's cities, so we figured it was time to come back home and try being tourists in our own town.

Alice Coachman Davis was an athlete who specialized in the high jump. She was the first black woman selected for the U.S. Olympic team and went on to become the first black woman of any nationality to win a gold medal at the Olympics...

Aurora James, founder of the 15 Percent Pledge, and Jewel Burks Solomon, General Partner of Collab Capital, discuss the steps retailers and the venture capital industry need to take to correct gaps in representation and funding for Black...

Employees at some of the world's largest companies are demanding equality and corporate action. The Memo LLC's Minda Harts and former Riot Games writer Indu Reddy discuss who today's CEOs answer to and what employees expect from...

Jean Brownhill, Anne Sempowski Ward, and Casey Gerald discuss what businesses, managers and individuals can do to activate the ambitious women of color in their ranks.

Carla Harris and Jessica O. Matthews discuss how to seed diverse founders and accelerate change in the tech industry at WSJ Tech Live.

Cathay Williams was an African-American soldier, recognized as the first Black woman to enlist, and the only documented woman to serve in the United States Army posing as a man during the American Indian Wars. Notably, she was...

Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights, activist. She was the first Black woman to be featured on a United States quarter coin (25 cent coin) When she was eight, she was raped by her mother's boyfriend and...

Yesterday Joe Biden announced his running mate for the 2020 election, Senator Kamala Harris. In this video we explain who Harris is, why Biden picked her and if she looks to be the right VP to scoop him the presidency.

Senior adviser and spokesperson to the Vice President Symone Sanders talks about her professional journey from campaign spokesperson to senior White House official at the WSJ's Women In Series.

Lucy Stanton was an American abolitionist and feminist figure, notable for being the first African-American woman to complete a four-year course of a study at a college or university. She completed a Ladies Literary Course from Oberlin...

Employees increasingly expect and demand more from their companies-not only in pay and perks, but also in culture and equality. What should executives be doing to meet employees' needs?

Valeisha Butterfield Jones discusses her path to the executive leadership team, the importance of failure how she is championing women’s leadership in the American music industry.

Omar Holmon (he/him/his) reads his poem, “The 4C Complex

In the third of a new series, James Payne and Joanne Shurvell combine their love of Art and Travel, as they travel to Venice for the world’s oldest and greatest art exhibition, the Venice Biennale.



The 59th International...

When you think of the stereotypical Wild West individual, what comes to mind? Does your mind conjure images of dirty, gruff men as mean as rabid coyotes, spitting large chunks of tobacco into metal spittoons? The type of men who would...

A quick overview of famous Black women in history and a bit about what they have accomplished.

Kamala Devi Harris is an American politician, attorney and also the vice president of the United States.



A member of the Democratic party, she assumed office as the vice president on January 20, 2021, and became the...

Learn more about U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris.

Breaking through the limits placed on women and people of color was all in a day’s work for Constance Baker Motley. She was a civil rights activist, lawyer, judge and state senator.

We all know Rosa Parks as the tired old lady on a bus who unknowingly sparked a civil rights firestorm by refusing to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama. But is that true? Not entirely. Rosa Parks was a radical, civil right activist...