When nine-year-old Elizabeth sat down for an after-school math program with Black Girls Love Math, she wasn’t just solving equations — she was finding her safe space. Surrounded by girls who looked ...

Photo by Daniel Mollenkamp for EdSurge. PHILADELPHIA — Elle Oliver knows anger. Multiplying by 12 used to make the rising sixth grader fume. Now she’s tackling integers with relative calm. Still, ...

After two decades in the education system as a math teacher, principal and administrator, Atiyah Harmon noticed a problem: young Black girls in middle school were increasingly disinterested in ...

Only about 2 percent of all science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers are held by Black women. Philadelphia native Atiyah Harmon is on a mission to exponentially increase this ...