From Black inventors, comedians and doctors to ... she managed to become one of the first female African American self-made ...

Dean are just a few notable African-American inventors. We live in a world with blood banks, automated elevators, caller ID, and color computer monitors because of their work. Follow BI Video ...

Did you know that a staggering 90% of patented inventions in the United States were developed by individuals of European ...

African-American innovators and visionaries have developed or contributed to many things that are commonplace today — some are well known such as the light bulb and others not so obvious such as ...

The entire audience, including the several hundred whites in the orchestra seats, rose to give the first African American female pilot a standing ovation. Over the next five years Coleman ...

Photographs, documents and artifacts illustrate Walker’s journey from growing up on an old slave plantation to becoming the first African American ... The fight for female rights in the French ...