Science must overcome its racist legacy: Nature’s guest editors speak

Science must overcome its racist legacy: Nature’s guest editors speak

Top scholars, including Melissa Nobles, are leading Nature on a journey to help decolonize research and forge a path towards restorative justice and reconciliation.

June 8, 2022 | Nature | Melissa Nobles, Chad Womack, Ambroise Wonkam, and Elizabeth Wathuti
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Melissa Nobles, Chad Womack, Ambroise Wonkam, and Elizabeth Wathuti
June 10, 2022
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In an editorial for Nature, chancellor Melissa Nobles, Chad Womack of the UNCF, professor Ambroise Wonkman of Johns Hopkins University, and Elizabeth Wathuti of the Green Generation Initiative detail the long history of racism in science and outline their work as guest editors of a series of special Nature issues focused on racism in science. “Racism has led to injustices against millions of people, through slavery and colonization, through apartheid and through continuing prejudice today,” write Nobles and her co-authors. “The point of learning about and analyzing racism in science must be to ensure that it is never repeated.” The full article is available here in Nature.