As a young girl in the Jim Crow-era South, Gladys West passed the time counting fenceposts, dreaming of life beyond her family farm south of Richmond. Each day, she walked three miles to a segregated ...

A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped to improve billions of lives — and keep us from getting lost.

West (right) and her colleague Sam Smith review data from the Global Positioning System that she had helped develop at the weapons laboratory in Dahlgren, Va., in 1985. West, a mathematician at the US ...

Katherine Johnson and other Black female scientists transformed NASA and STEM, overcoming segregation to calculate missions ...

Miley Cyrus is a huge animal lover, at different points owning dogs named Angel, Barbie, Happy, Bean, Emu, Kate Moss, Tani and Daisy, a pig named Puddles and horses named Pumpkin and Dumplin, as well ...

At a time of rising income inequality, advocates worry that a convergence of developments will make it even harder to go to ...

They need more help than ever, The Century Foundation reports. The average price for college, after discounts and financial ...

From mid-century portraiture at MoMA to Ming Smith’s jazz-inspired photography, these shows celebrate the breadth of Black artistic expression.

A similar story applies to the suburbs, where East Cleveland’s median arms-length sale remains $27,700 below its pre-foreclosure level, and a slower recovery is underway in suburbs with larger ...

Ahead of a Drawing From The Well celebration hosted by the Irish Traditional Music Archive at the National Concert Hall, Seán Potts celebrates the life of Breandán Breathnach.