US biology textbooks highlighted seven men for every woman scientist. And black women were not represented a single time in any of the works analysed. Based on the current rate, it will be ...

A prime example of this is depicted in the movie Hidden Figures, which retells the story of four Black female scientists (Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan and Christine Darden) who ...

"the saddest aspect of life right now is that science fiction gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." Black women have always gathered knowledge faster than society writ large ...

“Dr. Sherita Golden’s experience ironically aligns with most organizations’ typical and historic stance toward Black women,” shared DEI consultant and decolonial educator Joquina Reed.

(AP Photo/Pamela Smith) Members of the Black Women’s Leadership Collective from left; Holli Holliday, President, Sisters Lead ...

The participants weren’t just volunteers, they’re scientists, members of the Black Women in Ecology, Evolution and Marine Science, a nonprofit called BWEEMS. “I’ve always said that I think ...

Through her platform, Black Female Therapists, Dee informs Black women and men about mental health in the Black community. Though the name of the site centers on women, Dee stresses the database i ...

At the height of the pandemic and George Floyd protests, marine biologist Jasmin Graham stumbled across a picture on Twitter: It was of Carlee Jackson Bohannon, a Black female scientist ...

Centuries of racism, along with the harmful strong Black woman stereotype — that Black women are more resilient and inherently stronger than white women — have had catastrophic effects on the ...

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