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The Black History Month entry for Feb. 2, 2017: Henry Blair an inventor and one of the first African-Americans to receive a patent in the United States. Blair was born in Glen Ross, Md. in 1807.
Local drag history will be in the spotlight — possibly amid effusions of feathers and rhinestones — when Blair Michaels hosts “Drag Through the Decades” on June 8.
On the pages of National Review and, after 1966, on Firing Line, Buckley pioneered the do-your-own-research rhetorical style: ...
Being a coward refers to acting out of fear, avoiding confrontation not because of principle, but because of principle, ...
Henry L. Marsh III, the first Black mayor of Richmond and a figure who embodied the rise of African American power in the city, died Thursday night at 91. Marsh, a civil rights lawyer, was ...
The Henry Ford is proud to announce the return of RTX Invention Convention U.S. Nationals to its campus June 4-6, 2025. This event is in its tenth year and will once again be hosted in Henry Ford ...
These 2025 high school graduates can look back with pride and forward with confidence, as we salute them in our annual ...
DEARBORN, Mich., June 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Henry Ford is proud to announce the return of RTX Invention Convention U.S. Nationals to its campus June 4-6, 2025. This event ...
Harrison Blair leads the nation’s oldest Black chamber and is also a member of the Dallas Park and Recreation Board. He says the book Who Not How by Dan Sullivan has been a key guide in his ...
As Pride events reach a peak, we defiantly celebrate while keeping a suspicious eye on what the July 4 holiday means these ...
Marian Croak and the late Dr. Patricia Bath will be the first two Black women to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.