Dorothy Vaughan, one of the first Black women to be promoted to a supervisory role at NASA, was an expert programmer in the early days of electronic computing. She taught herself and her ...

There were very few women in Mission Control during the moon landings. But they were working in the background. Three ...

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they ...