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By MARCIA DUNN Spacewalking astronauts ventured out Sunday to install support frames for new, high-efficiency solar panels arriving at the International Space Station later this...

Executive Producer and Alpha Kappa Alpha member Kimberly Esmond Adams believes anytime is the right time to tell this type of American story. “This story talks about the role that a group of college women, who were still finding their way in the world, yet were intelligent enough to understand that the world was bigger than them and they could do something concrete to make it better for everyone.”

WASHINGTON (AP) NASA is naming its Washington headquarters after Mary Jackson, the space agency's first African American female engineer whose story was portrayed in...

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor Katherine Johnson, the legendary NASA physicist and mathematician whose work played a key role in the early successes...

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent Katherine Johnson, one of the African American women whose stories received global attention in the best-selling book and...