Zaila Avant-garde whirled and leaped with joy after spelling the winning word, “murraya,” a genus of tropical Asiatic and Australian trees.

Oprah Winfrey has become the first Black female entrepreneur on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. With a record $4 billion fortune, she ranks as one of the world’s 500 richest people at 494. The Queen of all media is ranked just behind Mark Cuban and Ross Perot. One of the many reasons to increase Winfrey’s fortune this year […]

If you have seen the movie ‘Hidden Figures’, you will be no stranger to Katherine Johnson’s story. She was an African American mathematician who worked at NASA. Now, NASA has officially opened a building which it has named in her honour. The Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility opened on Friday (Sept 22). Johnson was […]

Jeanette Epps will be the first Black American astronaut to work at the International Space Station in 2018. NASA on Wednesday assigned African-American astronaut Epps on missions to fly to the ISS as a crew member.