Gail M Whitaker, a longtime member of Media Borough Council, and the first Black woman to practice law in Delaware County, died Dec. 5. She was 81. The Media Borough resident valued the borough ...

Barbara Brown Simmons was the first Black woman to graduate from the University of New Mexico School of Law and the first ...

Barbara Jordan was a lawyer, educator, and politician who became the first Black woman to be elected to the Texas Senate. She also broke several barriers in politics by becoming the first Black person ...

s Star state of Minnesota. From fur trader George Bonga to the state?s first black woman lawyer, Lena Smith. first black woman lawyer, Lena Smith. North Star: Minnesota's Black Pioneers is ...