Before there was Oprah Winfrey, there was Madam C.J. Walker. The daughter of former slaves, Walker grew up an orphan toiling in the cotton fields of the segregated South. A widow and single mother by ...

The Wm. Chester Ruth Legacy Project, named for early-20th-century African American businessman, inventor and minister William ...

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Amid a song, a prayer, and joy, an African American man known as a “mechanical genius” was honored with a historical marker in Forney on Saturday, more than 90 years after his death.

The relative odds that inventors were women, for example, nearly doubled from 0.07 in 1880 to 0.13 in 1940; essentially, women made up 3.5% to 6.5% of U.S. inventors.

Since 2020, Howard, 65, has overseen the Black Inventors Hall of Fame website, which pays tribute to African Americans whose inventions have had an immense impact on society, but who have been ...

It is an important message where brown-skinned teenagers can relate to brown-skinned achievers, not only in the field of STEM, but achievers who are solving African problems with African solutions.” ...

South Carolina-born Miriam Benjamin was an African American educator and public servant who moved to the District as an adult around the turn of the 20th century.

“We tend to think of the big names in invention and innovation, and it really is a diverse set of people who have moved this country forward,” Hermann said. The Princeton Public Library is featuring a ...