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This Howard University (HU) graduate is living proof that you’re never too old to follow your dreams! According to a news release distributed by the venerated Historically Black College and University (HBCU), 70-year-old Joseph Grant is a proud member of the HU graduating class of 2021. He’s matriculating from the university with a Ph.D. in political science. Dr. Grant’s focus will be on American government and Black politics. “I always wanted to go to Howard University, literally all my life. This is my first HBCU experience,” said Dr. Grant, in a statement included in the university’s release. “When I graduated high school, there was a big move to integrate, and because they needed Black students and I needed the money, it was an easy decision to go to those schools. I was determined [as I got older] that when my children were in college, they would go to an HBCU.” Dr. Grant said that he grew up during a time of segregation, where things were “separate but equal” in the United...
Aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson-Jackson utilized her life-long career as a trailblazer to break barriers in STEM. It is through her life’s work that she’s been able to open doors for young Black women pursuing paths across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics while also advocating for more diversity. Ericsson-Jackson was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1963. As a child she developed a love for STEM watching Apollo missions and participating in science fairs that would dictate her educational and career choices later down the line. At age 15, she moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to live with her grandparents and attended the Cambridge School of Weston. From there, Ericsson-Jackson was accepted into the UNITE (now MITE—Minority Introduction to Engineering, Entrepreneurship, and Science) program that set her up to pursue a B.A. degree in aeronautical/astronautical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Face2Face Africa reports. She continued her...