A Social Justice Tightrope: Walking Through the James Webb Telescope Controversy.

The controversy surfaced as Webb was accused of enabling a so-called “lavender scare,” a mid-20th-century purge of gay employees from the federal workforce. Hakeem Oluseyi, President of the National Society of Black Physicists and an advocate for social justice himself, found himself in the eye of the storm when he claimed there was no direct evidence linking Webb to these allegations.