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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 UScellular's seventh annual Black History Month Art Contest with her drawing of Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who played a key role in making America's 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 University) in 1942. She worked as a math teacher in Maryland for a year before returning to Hampton. She l...