US President Joe Biden is trying to shore up his support among vital Black voters with a series of events starting Thursday, including a visit to the former university of civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. Biden is honoring "the legacy of those who paved the way for progress and hard-fought rights for Black Americans," said White House Press …
How a brilliant biologist was failed by science Emmanuel Lafont Roger Arliner Young’s brilliance made her the first black woman in the US to hold a doctorate in zoology. Marine Biological Laboratory Archives As well as Young’s mentor, Ernest Just, shown here in 1925, was a towering figure in Howard University’s biology department “They’re both working at an HBCU, which …