Ceremonies across Cape Cod and the Islands will celebrate Juneteenth, the June 19 national holiday that marks the end of ...

The Melbourne STEM university's faculty members and instructors will offer eight-week classes in hybrid (in-person and online ...

From playing the slave, Kunta Kinte, in Roots to playing a crew member on the Enterprise in “Star Trek,’’ LeVar Burton is an ...

From playing the slave, Kunta Kinte, in Roots to playing a crew member on the Enterprise in Star Trek, LeVar Burton is an ...

This opened doors for the Black female astronauts to come after her, including Stephanie Wilson, a veteran of three spaceflights, Joan Higginbotham, the third African American woman to go into space, ...

Joan Higginbotham will speak at the graduate student ceremony. She began her career as an engineer at NASA in 1987, participating in 53 space shuttle launches during her 9-year tenure before being ...

Additionally, retired NASA astronaut Joan Higginbotham will serve as the keynote speaker for the graduate student ceremony on Friday, May 9, at 6 p.m. in First Horizon Coliseum. Both ceremonies will ...

The webinar featured six trailblazing Black American astronauts: Charles Bolden, Frederick Gregory, Bernard Harris, Joan Higginbotham, Leland Melvin, and Robert Satcher. Teresa Clarke, founder of ...

The seven-member crew included Commander Mark Polansky, pilot William Oefelein and mission specialists Nicholas Patrick, Robert Curbeam, Joan Higginbotham, Christer Fuglesang from ESA and Sunita.

Higginbotham said he was bound by 5th Circuit ... CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst Joan Biskupic contributed to this report.