Written by Danielle Chiriguayo and Amy Ta, produced by Brian Hardzinski
May. 12, 2021Education MORE “People are really excited about science. They feel like the scientific community is not excited about them, or welcoming to them, except sometimes using Black people for experiments,” says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. Photo by Shutterstock.
Some of the most recognizable names in science are white men: Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, even Bill Nye. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is one of the few Black women in astrophysics. She teaches at the University of New Hampshire, and she explores the intersection of science and race in her new book titled “The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred.”