Happy Pi Day! Cheers to black female mathematicians. Today, March 14 (3/14), marks the annual celebration because the date represents the first three digits of the mathematical constant π (pi), ...

Katherine Johnson and other Black female scientists transformed NASA and STEM, overcoming segregation to calculate missions from Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond.

Editor’s note: Once a month, this column will tackle broader questions about what the country should do to increase educational opportunities for black youths. The lesson? The U.S. will continue to ...

Stream now with KPBS Passport on KPBS+ / Watch Monday, Feb. 16 and Feb. 17 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV. This two-part series traces ...

You have probably never heard of Gladys West, but without her, your travel destinations might not be as easy to determine.

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 ...

The biographical film, which stars Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monae, tells the story of the black female mathematicians and physicists who worked for NASA in the 1960s and were an ...

This episode traces the role of HBCUs and mentors in growing the community of Black mathematicians. The episode relates stories of prominent African American mathematicians who struggled through ...

NASA has renamed the street outside its Washington headquarters to honor three black female mathematicians whose pioneering work on the agency's early space program was chronicled in the film "Hidden ...

STRI copy 39088019512037 Purchased from the Cullman Endowment. Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human ...