This Black History Month, add another beautiful Black doll to your child’s—or your own—collection. Described as a “curious, bright, humorous and young girl who has a natural interest in learning ...

Nationwide — Terysa Ridgeway, a pioneering African-American computer scientist and celebrated children’s book author, is on a mission to ignite a passion for coding among children worldwide. With an ...

It’s not often that people choose a major without knowing anything about the subject, but in the 10th grade, that’s just what Bukola Somide did. A friend at the time, who was senior, told Somide about ...

Juan Gilbert felt alone as he pursued a PhD in computer science in the 1990s. It was a familiar sense that had followed him throughout his university years, as a student from modest means and the ...

ATLANTA (CNN) -- Studies have shown that even among middle class and upper-income African-American families, only about 11 percent have computers at home, compared to 70 percent of white families.

Many of today's 21st-century innovations came from the 1950s and 1960s. Inventions like the microchip, computer programming languages, and satellites are the foundation of services and devices we take ...

President Gerald Ford recognized Black History Month for the first time in 1976. But the origins of this annual observance go back more than 100 years. In 1915, Carter G. Woodson traveled from ...