Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about female entrepreneurs in healthcare. Jackson’s name adorning the federal building shows acknowledgment for her ...

Friday marked what would have been the 100th birthday of the late Mary Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA. Students in Salt Lake City who attend Mary W. Jackson Elementary ...

The 2016 movie Hidden Figures, based on Margot Lee Shetterly’s book, told the incredible true story of three Black women who helped put American astronauts in space. One of those extraordinary ...

Though they differ in background and medium, Mary Whyte and Mary Jackson have more in common than just their first name. They are two of the most accomplished visual artists in the area. “There are ...

A ceremony Friday paid tribute to NASA's first Black woman engineer. NASA officially named its headquarters in the nation's capital after Mary W. Jackson, the agency's first Black woman engineer, with ...

Earlier this week, NASA announced that it is renaming its headquarters building in Washington D.C. after Mary W. Jackson, the space agency’s first black female engineer. “Jackson started her NASA ...

Jackson Elementary School in Salt Lake City will keep its name, but change its namesake. It will no longer be named for President Andrew Jackson, but Mary Jackson, NASA's first black female engineer.

Bryan Jackson, grandson of Mary W. Jackson, left, and Raymond Lewis, son-in-law of Mary W. Jackson, right, unveil the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters sign during a ceremony officially naming the ...

Mary Jackson was 4 when she learned how to weave. Sitting at her mother’s knee in the late 1940s, she tied her first knots with nimble little fingers, binding coils of sea grasses. The annual Wiki ...

Mathematician Mary Jackson, the first black woman engineer at NASA at work at NASA Langley Research Center in 1977 in Hampton, Virginia. Getty Images NASA announced Wednesday that the organization’s ...

Jackson, who died in 2005, was portrayed by Janelle Monáe in the 2016 movie Hidden Figures NASA plans to immortalize Mary W. Jackson, one of its trailblazing alums portrayed in the hit film Hidden ...