‘Science is a human endeavor’: astrophysicist uses art to connect Black and brown kids to the Stem fields | History of science
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on May 30, 2025
When practicing funeral ceremonies during the antebellum period, enslaved west Africans mimicked the sun’s rotation as they danced counterclockwise in hidden clearings. They would sing and shuffle their feet to the beat of the drums in a ring shout, a ritual to honor the deceased that originated in Africa and which is still practiced by the descendants of enslaved people . . .
