#BlackScienceMatters is a series of eight short films produced by University of Illinois students under the leadership of journalism professor Charles "Stretch" Ledford, and brought to a wider audience by Illinois Public Media. 

A multimedia journalism project sheds a light the lack of representation of African-Americans in the sciences and engineering. We discussed what's being done about it. Also, we spoke withone of the astronomers who discovered a new "dark galaxy" 4 billion light-years away.