Shortly after, Parris says he started yelling at her, breaking doors and punched her in the face. Parris, now 32 and living in Vancouver, says she felt too ashamed to confide in her mother when she ...

Koelzer made history when she became the first Black woman selected No. 1 in the National Women's Hockey League Draft by the ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license. Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination.