FILE - This photo provided by NASA shows engineer Mary W. Jackson at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., in 1977. (Robert Nye/NASA via AP) (Robert Nye, For ...

When you think of groundbreaking discoveries in science, the names of Albert Einstein, Marie Curie or Isaac Newton often come to mind. However, many Black female scientists have been just as impactful ...

A TIME TO HONOR CHANGEMAKERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. AND THERE ARE SOME, OF COURSE, RIGHT HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY. EDWINA JUSTICE WAS THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE TRAIN ENGINEER FOR UNION PACIFIC, AND SHE HOPES ...

Cayla Withers is a Southern Black American woman of faith and an aerospace engineering student at Stanford University who is following a beautiful legacy of Black American women engineers from the ...

She went from the back room to the name on the boardroom. NASA will name its headquarters after Mary Jackson, the agency’s first black female engineer and one of the women spotlighted in the 2016 book ...

Jackson Elementary School in Salt Lake City will remain Jackson Elementary school, but the name will now have a very different meaning. According to KSK-TV, the name of NASA engineer Mary Jackson, the ...

Crystal Trent, the first Black woman to work as a locomotive engineer for San Diego County, stands in front of a Coaster train. Trent started working for the North County Transit District as a ...

A few years ago, I sat in the office of one of my mentors back at University of Chicago (UChicago). He had always checked in on me and helped guide me through the turbulence of being first-generation, ...

NASA's Washington, D.C., headquarters will soon bear the name of Mary Jackson, the agency's first African American female engineer and a driving force behind getting U.S. astronauts into space. NASA ...