At age nine, Ronald McNair was kicked out of the library for being Black. Today, that same edifice has been named in his honor. Throughout his lifetime, McNair was met with the ugliness of racism ...

After the tragic day in 1986, his hometown opened the Ronald E. McNair Life History Center in 2011. The location used to be ...

McNair died 37 years ago in 1986 as he was aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. At the 37th Commemorative Celebration Luncheon, NC A&T STEM students presented their research and marched to the ...

South Carolina native Ronald McNair was the second African-American to go into space, and was part of the STS-51L crew that died when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after lift-off ...