Racism: Overcoming science’s toxic legacy

This article is part of a special issue on racism in science overseen by four guest editors: Melissa Nobles, Chad Womack, Ambroise Wonkam and Elizabeth Wathuti.

The cover of Nature magazine featuring the headline “Racism, Overcoming science’s toxic legacy” with a stylised illustration showing silhouettes of faces on light and dark coloured squares.
  • Editorial

    • Science must overcome its racist legacy: Nature’s guest editors speak
    • Ending racism is key to better science: a message from Nature’s guest editors
    • Nature thanks the guest editors of our racism in science special issue
  • News feature

    • Computer science has a racism problem: these researchers want to fix it
  • News feature – profiles

    • ‘It’s a constant hum’: a planetary geologist calls out racism in academia
    • The first Indigenous female surgeon in Canada is battling for health justice
    • The geoscientist fighting for universities to confront systemic racism
    • ‘There’s no space for us’: an Indigenous-health researcher battles racism in Australia
    • ‘I was treated as if I was dirty’: a paediatrician decries racism against African scientists
  • Comment

    • Counter the weaponization of genetics research by extremists
  • News & Views

    • Skin colour affects the accuracy of medical oxygen sensors
    • The unseen Black faces of AI algorithms
  • Careers

    • Imperialism’s long shadow: the UK universities grappling with a colonial past
  • Where I work

    • A Jamaican medicinal-plant scientist explores his African roots