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

A new biography traces the ascent of a man who made the postwar right at once urbane, combative, and camera-ready.

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

Tension: Millennials define themselves in contrast to older generations yet often mirror the very Boomer habits they ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Lewis Latimer House, which preserves the life and legacy of the Black inventor for which it is named, will have games, music and performances for the whole family at its Juneteenth Freedom ...