February is Black History Month. For decades, however, the accomplishments and inventions of African Americans were overlooked, forgotten, deleted, misrepresented, ignored, exploited and expunged ...

By 1900, the Howard University law school graduate had compiled four large volumes about the inventions that were patented by African Americans. Baker was no novice, as he had rose through the ...

Morgan died in 1963, but his legacy lives on, from schools in Cleveland, Chicago, and Kentucky to a fire boat used by ...

"You know how they say that necessity is the mother of invention, so it should be no surprise that there have actually been so many African-American inventions." ...