The findings also identify a sex bias in which women contributed significantly more to the gene pool of modern-day African Americans than enslaved men ... Amanda was an associate editor at The ...

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 ...

A recent study has identified twelve genes linked to breast cancer in women of African ancestry ... according to the American Cancer Society. By adding the newly identified genes to previously ...

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 ...

Seba Johnson became the first African American female to compete in Alpine Skiing back in 1988, representing the U.S. Virgin Islands. At the age of 14, she was also the youngest Alpine ski racer ...

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.

FORT SMITH -- The first African-American woman to go to outer space, Mae Jemison, said she ventured beyond the earth ...