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From "On the Basis of Sex" to "Suffragette," pay your respects to everyday activists, revolutionaries, and rebels who paved the way for women's equality.

A Bellevue student has won UScellulars seventh annual Black History Month Art Contest with her drawing of Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who played a key role in making Americas early

This February 2024, TRU Staffing Partners honors the resilience, creativity, and intellectual contributions of Black American women outstanding in the fields of science, technology,...

African-American women working behind the scenes as “human computers” were vital to the Space Race

Mary Jackson, née Mary Winston, (born April 9, 1921, Hampton, Virginia, U.S.—died February 11, 2005, Hampton), American mathematician and aerospace engineer who in 1958 became the first African American female engineer to work at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). She was born and raised in Hampton, Virginia. After graduating from high school with highest honours, she earned a dual degree in mathematics and physical science at the Hampton Institute (now Hampton Univers...

Black scientists have contributed to society and made groundbreaking discoveries throughout history and continue to do so to this day. Heres a look at just a few of the amazing Black scientists from

Katherine Johnson, née Katherine Coleman, also known as (1939–56) Katherine Goble, (born August 26, 1918, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, U.S.—died February 24, 2020, Newport News, Virginia), American mathematician who calculated and analyzed the flight paths of many spacecraft during her more than three decades with the U.S. space program. Her work helped send astronauts to the Moon. Coleman’s intelligence and skill with numbers became apparent when she was a child; by the time s...

NASA’s pioneering mathematician Katherine Johnson passed away on Monday at the age of 101. Katherine Johnson’s calculations helped get the first Americans to space and back safely.

Gino Blefari shares his thoughts on the trailblazing leader Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA.

Using an artistic technique dating back to the Renaissance era known as a “triangle” perspective, artist Hubert Jackson establishes a layered hierarchy to convey contributions made by Black women and men in the space program.