#BlackintheIvory is yet another illustration that academia is rife with racism. It’s long past time for change
Hispanic students are just as interested in STEM careers as their white and Asian peers but remain underrepresented in STEM occupations
An excerpt from How To Argue With A Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality by Adam Rutherford.
Blacks and Hispanics are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math jobs, relative to their presence in the overall U.S. workforce, particularly among workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher.
From well-known Black scientists, such as George Washington Carver, to James West, who coinvented the microphone, to those whose impressive scientific records have nearly languished in obscurity, our list will have you rethinking what else might be left out of your history textbook.
Here, you can learn more about the phenomenal work Black scientists do and have done every day.
Learn about the work that these Black scientists and inventors have accomplished that make our lives better.
Many aspects of environmental scholarship are inaccessible to Black students, including textbooks that don’t acknowledge our history, and field work requirements that are ignorant of Black criminalization in the outdoors.
These four steps, as limited as they are, can play a major role in transforming science and academia into a safer, more inclusive environment. It’s on each of us to choose to take them.
A new book and movie document the accomplishments of NASA’s black “human computers” whose work was at the heart of the country’s greatest battles
In celebration of LatinX Heritage Month, these are LatinX scientists shaping policy and research worldwide
From groundbreaking biologists and physicists to innovators in the fields of medicine, botany, and environmental studies, here are 10 game-changing Hispanic scientists you should know about.