Dr. Bernard Harris Jr., a decorated astronaut who became the first Black person to perform a spacewalk in 1995, is being ...

Known as "Black Edison," he registered nearly 60 patents in his lifetime, including a telephone transmitter, a trolley wheel and the multiplex telegraph (over which he defeated a lawsuit by Thomas ...

Joey Brown has lived on Avery Island for 13 years. Her husband, Alfred Whitney “Buzzy” Brown III, is the great-great-grandson ...

Sarah Elisabeth Goode made history in 1885 when she became one of the first Black American women to earn a patent. She ...

As the lights come up and people start to clap, Steve glances down the row of seats at his co-star. Daphne, seeming to sense ...

Mary Kenner was the first Black woman to be awarded five patents in the United States, but not many people know her story ...

Material history, including at places such as Nottoway, has messages for people studying Black history.

Every time an ice cream store, a street vendor or you personally at home, scoop out some ice cream, you have inventor Alfred L. Cralle to thank for that. Alfred L. Cralle was an African American ...

Read: Breaking ground: Meet the women demolishing barriers in construction industry During slavery, the patent system in the US excluded black inventors because of their lack of legal person-hood and ...

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