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This list of African-American inventors and scientists documents many of the African Americans who have invented a multitude of items or made discoveries in the course of their lives. These have ranged from practical everyday devices to applications and scientific discoveries in diverse fields, including physics, biology, math, and medicine.
Lanny Smoot (born December 13, 1955 [1]) is an American electrical engineer, inventor, scientist, and theatrical technology creator.With over 100 patents, he is Disney's most prolific inventor [2] and one of the most prolific Black inventors in American history. [3]
Image credits: Vintage Everyday When we say "the best thing since sliced bread," we're going back to July 6, 1928. It was on that day that the very first automatically sliced commercial loaves of ...
The following is a list of notable African-American women who have made contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.. An excerpt from a 1998 issue of Black Issues in Higher Education by Juliane Malveaux reads: "There are other reasons to be concerned about the paucity of African American women in science, especially as scientific occupations are among the ...
"A life is not important except in the impact is has on other lives." — Jackie Robinson, American baseball player "From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."
How did Black Lives Matter begin? The phrase Black Lives Matter was born out of a Facebook post from Alicia Garza after the July 13, 2013, acquittal of George Zimmerman in the death of 17-year-old ...
African American slaves in Georgia, 1850. African Americans are the result of an amalgamation of many different countries, [33] cultures, tribes and religions during the 16th and 17th centuries, [34] broken down, [35] and rebuilt upon shared experiences [36] and blended into one group on the North American continent during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and are now called African American.
Life's little annoyances are like tiny paper cuts to your sanity – individually manageable, but collectively maddening enough to make you question who designed this reality. But before you ...