The fact that Josephine Baker was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, Siren of the Tropics (1927), is only one aspect of her remarkable achievements. In addition to being a major ...

Black History figures everyone should know about For too many years, history books have focused on the achievement of White Americans, while many of the inspiring contributions of African Americans, ...

In the first installment of her column "Hidden Gems from a Black Girl Engineering Major," Cayla Withers writes about the ...

Six killings across the country, a fake drowning in San Francisco Bay and fear of an AI apocalypse: Who is the mysterious "Ziz"?

Only now, thanks to the advent of artificial intelligence and machine learning, scholars of the ancient world have partnered with computer programmers ... entirely of Black women to have been ...

Janet Petro, a seasoned engineer and civil servant, has made history as the first woman to serve as both the acting ...

“Diversity,” “inclusion,” “environmental justice,” and “women in leadership” are just a few of the terms NASA personnel were told to scrub from agency websites following a ...

NASA astronaut Sunni Williams outside the ISS during a spacewalk that set a new record for women astronauts on January ... that included the first female, Black, and Asian-American astronauts ...

As Elon Musk helps the Trump administration eliminate DEI, his SpaceX currently has a NASA contract to help land the first woman and first person of color on the moon.

In response to the memo, Petro eliminated NASA's Diversity and Inclusion office. The space agency's diversity and inclusion website also went dark. Petro, the first woman to lead NASA since its ...

The previous record of 60 hours and 21 minutes was set in 2017 by now-former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson. Whitson's 10 career spacewalks are still the most any woman has ever made, according to NASA.

As President Donald Trump's anti-DEI agenda comes to bear on NASA, we're getting a revealing look at what his administration considers to be too woke: women. In a directive sent out just days after ...