Passionate about making smaller and more efficient semiconductors, physicist Sonia Guimarães is a relentless voice for equity in Brazilian science. This Nature Q&A series celebrates individuals who ...

On July 10, the Brazilian Academy of Letters (Academia Brasileira de Letras — ABL) announced that it had elected the first Black woman as a member in its 128-year history. The woman who broke the ...

Jack Greener was sparring with his instructor in 2018 when his cervical vertebrae was crushed Vincero Collective/YouTube Jack Greener was left paralyzed from the neck down by his jiu-jitsu instructor ...

If you're Black and you’ve ever travelled, you know the feeling: the stares, the suspicion, the microaggressions. Sometimes it feels like you have to shrink yourself just to move freely. But what if ...

I understand why “people of color” has become a popular phrase. It allows for a kind of political solidarity between non-White citizens of the country and the rest of the world. It acknowledges how ...