Among 11 STEM professions reviewed by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, or NCSES, only one field demonstrates a rate of Black representation that is close to the overall ...

In March, Hinton, along with 51 other Black scientists, wrote an article in Cell, a peer-reviewed scientific journal, on the role of Juneteenth in the science field and the barriers and challenges ...

Born in 1731 to Mary, a free woman of mixed racial heritage, and Robert Bannaky, a formerly enslaved Black man, Banneker grew up on his parents’ homestead near Baltimore, according to the ...

Cooper, a Black man and birdwatcher, had the police falsely called on him by Amy Cooper (no relation) when he asked Ms. Cooper to follow park rules and put her dog on a leash in New York City’s ...

In over 100 years, a black scientist has never become a Nobel Prize winner. Black people in Western countries are also less likely to study science.

Yet black men are less likely to be included in clinical trials of drugs for the disease – and accidental biases against their biology seem to be partly to blame.