Bath invented a technique called laser phaco that revolutionized cataract surgery, and in doing so became the first African-American female doctor to receive a special patent. "I knew that that ...

An African-American ... Sunday when a woman two rows in front of her screamed that her husband was unresponsive. Flight attendants made an announcement asking if there were any doctors on board ...

Only 2% of the United States’ doctors are African American women, says Emery, “You can’t be what you can’t see.” Why, in 2015, are only 2% of the medical doctors in the United States ...

As late as 1920, there were only 65 African-American women doctors in the United States. Around the time of her graduation, Rebecca married for the second time. (Her first marriage to Wyatt Lee ...

The late civil rights icon Rosa Parks ... According to Boehner's office, "this will be the first statue of an African-American woman to be placed in the Capitol as part of the National Statuary ...