Hansen’s disease, also called leprosy, is treatable today – and that’s partly thanks to a curious tree and the work of a ...

Running a business or creating something that hasn’t ever been made are no easy feats, yet Black women continue to lead the way. According to Forbes, Black women have become the fast-growing group of ...

As the rockets fired against the Florida launch pad, Jemison was on her way to becoming the first woman of colour and first African ... scientist.” Having watched Sally Ride become the first ...

The first African-American woman to fly in space, Mae Jemison (1956-) holds a ... He worked hard to gain an education and become a scientist. He taught at Tuskegee Institute and became the “Peanut Man ...

Alma Levant Hayden was an American chemist, and one of the first African-American women to gain a scientist position at a science agency in Washington, D.C. She joined the National Institutes of ...

the first African American woman in space; and Charles Drew, a surgeon known as the “father of the blood bank,” are all naming options for the school’s spaces, Anderson presented.

In much the same way, medical researchers and church leaders can join forces to draw African American community members into clinical trials in which everyone benefits. For churchgoers, clinical ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license. Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination.