FAIRFAX, Va. - Sydney Lanier’s name sat atop a Virginia middle school for 60 years, but not anymore. The City of Fairfax School Board held a renaming ceremony on Friday and celebrated Lanier Middle ...

Katherine Johnson has become widely recognized as one of the most celebrated black women in STEM today, thanks to her work at NASA.

HAMPTON, Virginia -- Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA's early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film "Hidden Figures ...