Anticipating the movie “Hidden Figures,” I arrived to find nearly all seats were sold out Saturday night. I had not read the biography and I made a point to refrain from reading movie reviews or ...

Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first scholars to focus on women’s roles in the civil rights movement. Her 1993 book, “Trailblazers and Torchbearers,” dives into the stories of female leaders ...

Inspired by the One Book One Northwestern selection, Hidden Figures, Hidden No More reveals the names and narratives of the women/womxn who have taught as professors and conducted research at ...

In the first installment of her column "Hidden Gems from a Black Girl Engineering Major," Cayla Withers writes about the ...

With the selection of Hidden Figures as the One Book choice for this Academic Year, we wanted to feature other people in history that were forgotten. This page will serve as a way to emphasize those ...

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Women have been active in the civil rights fight for decades, but they don't often receive due credit. This Martin Luther King Jr. Day, take some time to learn about the women who stood alongside ...

NASA's news comes amid calls for greater racial equality in the United States. Black History’s Hidden Figures That Inspired Today’s Innovators Five groundbreaking black innovators you should ...