For most people, being chosen as one of three Black students to integrate West Virginia’s graduate schools would be the defining chapter of a life story. For Katherine Johnson, it was just the opening ...

In DeSoto this week, students from one school are being immersed in the history of the woman who bears the name of their school and was immortalized in the movie "Hidden Figures." The classwork for ...

Johnson helped pave the way for the first American astronaut to orbit Earth. A Virginia middle school that was once named after a Confederate soldier has been renamed in honor of African American NASA ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va – West Virginia State University honored one of its own on Tuesday with its annual Katherine Johnson Day Observance on the late alumna’s birthday. Ericke Cage Johnson, a mathematician ...