Maggie Walker was an African American businesswoman who defied the odds and made history during the atrocities of the Jim Crow era. Maggie was born in Virginia during the Civil War in 1864.

According to Reuters, Black women business owners are on the frontlines of harm ... Like Shirley Chisholm said, ‘I am American.’ This is my land. We built this land on our backs and from ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African-American ... both black and a woman. On the advice of Robert Abbott, the owner of the Chicago Defender and one of the first African American millionaires ...