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Blacks Should Aim for – and Seek to Understand -- the Stars
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
21 Sep 2020
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Margaret Kimberley · Blacks Should Aim for – and Understand -- the Stars

“We all have the right to know the universe,” said Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a Theoretical Physicist and Feminist Theorist at the University of New Hampshire and author of the soon to be released book, “The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred.” Prescod-Weinstein does draw ethical lines in her scholarship. “I don’t particularly support people going off and doing weapons development. That’s not my ministry,” she said.

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