Dorothy Jean "Dot" Womack, age 82, of McDonald, Tennessee, passed away peacefully on July 7, 2025. She was born July 1, 1943, ...

Dorothy Vaughan became acting supervisor of West Area Computers, leading Black female mathematicians at Langley, ...

A great movie can be defined by many things, but above all by telling the story of interesting characters. So, why is it that ...

Carolyn Goode Click here for updates on this story June 25, 2025 (Houston Style Magazine) — (Washington, DC – June 25, 2025) – The extraordinary life and legacy of NASA icon Katherine Johnson ...

By honoring the legacy of women in data science, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers are pushing for a more inclusive and innovative future in ...

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Tog ...

In keeping the legacy of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson alive, we rounded up some things that you need to know about the trailblazers and the work that quite literally ...

Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Christine Darden worked in a segregated department at NASA’s Langley Research Center but eventually became known as “human computers ...

The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to family members of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Christine Darden, as well as a medal to all the "women mathematicians ...

Earlier this year, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston marked the 55th anniversary of the first moon landing by dedicating one of its original buildings as the "Dorothy Vaughan Center in Honor ...

The late Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, who first introduced the Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act in February 2019, thanked her colleagues on Oct. 17, 2019, after the bill was passed ...

NASA "Hidden Figures" — Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and Christine Darden — were each awarded Congressional Gold Medals for their service to the space program at the U.S ...