As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

I n a new interview with Harper's Bazaar, Jenna said that she initially didn't want to take on the role due to the time ...

VanDyke says that she informed administrators at Faith Christian Academy in Orlando, Florida that students were bullying her over her natural hair; in response school officials deemed her hair a ...

an American entrepreneur is empowering women and girls to stay in school and become household earners. Employing women as seamstresses with a generous benefits package to sew school uniforms—one ...

The star-studded event increases the confidence of little African American girls from across the country ... she attended The Juilliard School in New York City. Lisa has performed and ...

Today, her nonprofit, Style Her Empowered – known as SHE – provides 1,500 girls a year in the African country of Togo with free uniforms, school fees, supplies, tutoring, and much more.

In Togo, where the cost of mandatory uniforms can keep girls out of school, CNN Hero Payton McGriff ... Make It the Mexican Way Alysa Liu Becomes First American Woman to Win World Figure Skating ...

After three years, The American ... school who challenged the mandatory “skirts only” rule for girls. During the ACLU’s investigation of the school’s policy, the school shared that its ...

In 1909, civil rights activist Nannie Helen Burroughs founded a trade school for African American girls. What followed ... She looked so gorgeous in her uniform." The women wanted to continue ...

"For African American girls, these policies can be more discriminatory ... "From my perspective, there are advantages and limitations to having school uniforms," she says.

Binary school uniforms, according to the commission's report, oppressed individuality and limited self-expression, with the cost of school uniforms being prohibitive and possibly leading to ...