Black History figures everyone should know about For too many years, history books have focused on the achievement of White Americans, while many of the inspiring contributions of African Americans, ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

Read more to find out how the lives of these figures shaped society ... Women and astronauts of color have Mae Jemison to look up to as the first Black American woman to embark on outer space.

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators (and their students) are eager to learn more about underrepresented ...

But I wasn’t selected to be an astronaut. In 1966, I resigned from the military and went to work for IBM, then became a sculptor, specializing in figures from African American history. The first Black ...

This artwork depicts physicist and astronaut Dr. Ronald E ... These objects range from plaques and memorials dedicated in honor of important Black figures, to striking and distinct abstract works that ...

On this day in 1995, Dr. Bernard Harris Jr. made history, stepping into the vastness of space and becoming the first African ...

Jeanette J. Epps has been a trailblazer for NASA, setting an agency record with her entire crew in October for the most time ...

In June 2009, Epps was selected as an astronaut candidate for the 20th class of NASA astronauts and later qualified in 2011. She served as an aquanaut aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory ...