*Whenever we are thinking about modern Black inventors, Garrett A. Morgan is the first to come to mind. He brought us out of the dark and gifted us with the spotlight. We also think about Charles Drew ...

This is an opinion column. A chair was just a chair — until Miriam Elizabeth Benjamin put a light and a bell on one. Benjamin was a schoolteacher, composer and inventor, born in 1861 in Charleston, ...

Joining them in the next class of inductees are two Black women inventors who changed the way we work and see. Croak, now a vice president at Google, developed Voice over Internet Protocol, the ...

Bessie Virginia Blount was a physical therapist, inventor and forensic scientist who invented an electronic feeding device in 1951 to help amputees feed themselves. In 1969, Blount joined law ...

Inventors come up with a lot of clever things to make our lives easier, but just imagine the world without this invention, so powerful, so fast, so fun -- the SuperSoaker. Lonnie Johnson, a black ...