Black washerwomen set the terms of their employment from the very first moment of emancipation. They refused to wash clothes on holidays. People wanted them to wash multiple loads in a week, ...

In 2017, playwright Kelundra Smith first learned about the Atlanta 1881 Washerwomen’s Strike by way of a small panel in an enormous, centuries-spanning exhibit at the National Museum of African ...

In a soaring speech in Atlanta, she made one of the strongest appeals to black voters of any Democratic White House hopeful during the 2020 primary. Sign in or Subscribe See Offers.

ATLANTA (AP) — Winning black female voters? On Thursday night in Atlanta, Sen. Elizabeth Warren showed she has a plan for that.