I'm an African American woman who's a rocket scientist. I want to do research with an HBCU, and then I want to turn around and I want to inspire other people to say they did it. So can I." ...

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 ...

Genetic factors contribute to some 30% of breast cancer cases in South Africa, necessitating investment in genomic research ...

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 ...

I’m also thrilled she’s pointing out that this was a team effort including contributions from many junior scientists, including many women junior scientists,” he wrote. “Together ...

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 ...

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.