Treasure presents an interesting contrast to Rachel Dolezal, the white woman of Irish heritage who reinvented herself as a black woman, braiding her hair and wearing traditional African dress, and rose to head a chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People..…

In the First District, a long vertical strip of eastern Virginia from the D.C. suburbs to Chesapeake Bay, veteran GOP Congressman Rob Whitman is challenged by Vangie Williams, a government policy analyst and the only African-American challenger to an incumbent Republican congressperson in Virginia..…

The imprisonment rate for African American women is twice that of white women. . Nationwide, African American children represent 32% of children who are arrested, . 42% of children who are detained, and 52% of children whose cases are judicially . waived to criminal court. . ..…

Although white women develop breast cancer at a higher rate, African-American women are 42 percent more likely to die from the disease, according to the American Cancer Society. . ... White women are slightly more likely to develop breast cancer than African American..…