By Dianne Anderson For years, local educator Dr. Kirk Kirkwood has been watching the data points, worrying that the needle for Black student achievement has hardly budged for the better, specifically around mathematics. It’s almost as alarming as the academic apathy around the numbers that keep showing deep disparities in education between Black and white ...

By Dianne Anderson Technologically speaking, math and other sciences are barreling toward making the wonders of almost anything on the big screen now appear within the realm of possibility – if only students can do the math. From his purview, Dr. Kagba Suaray of the Hesabu Circle sees how popular culture is spurring interest toward ...

By Dianne Anderson Being Black in STEM fields usually adds up to a mere handful of students tough enough to suffer through the academic gauntlet alone, but there is strength in the Hesabu Circle. A team of dedicated math doctors has come together to heal the community. Dr. Kagba Suaray, a mathematics professor at Cal ...

By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Newswire Katherine Johnson, the legendary NASA physicist and mathematician whose work played a key role in the early successes of the U.S. space program, passed away at 101 years old on the morning of February 24 in Newport News, Va. Johnson played a pivotal role in helping the U.S. land ...