Sep 5, 2022 | Art, Leadership, Men, Science
Inside 88-year-old Ed Dwight’s art studio in Denver, Colorado, is a collection of stories told through the sculptures he creates. But before Dwight became an artist dedicated to memorializing notable figures in Black history, he had hopes of making history of...
Jul 18, 2022 | Science, STEM
Black scientists have launched us into space, discovered new disease treatments and developed world-changing technologies, yet the achievements and contributions of Black people in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields are too-often forgotten or...
May 23, 2022 | Leadership, Science
To hear Marian Croak tell it, those video calls that got you and corporate America through the pandemic lockdowns almost didn’t happen. Croak was a young scientist at Bell Labs in the 1980s, when she asked the higher-ups to let her lead a team...
May 9, 2022 | History, Leadership, Science
Many of us Black physicists know Edward A. Bouchet as the first African American Ph.D. in the field. Historians of 19th century Black education know him as the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in any subject. And in fact, when Yale College awarded him this...
Apr 4, 2022 | Arts Education, Science, STEM, Women
The under-representation of people of color in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) has become a crisis of significant proportion. For women of color, the statistics are even more troubling. While the impact materializes in the workplace, it begins...
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