Black Americans have played an important role in shaping the world into what it is today. From caller ID to 3D movies to traffic lights, they have transformed technology. Black inventors and innovators have led us to many awesome things that we can’t live without today. You might have heard about inventions like the cotton …
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We all have heard sweeping statements like a ship carrying enslaved Africans reached Virginia in 1619. Centuries later, we still see the impact of slavery. Many people still don’t know the facts about slavery and continue to believe what they hear from others. Civil War wasn’t how slavery ended, and the first African slaves weren’t …
When it comes to innovators, black women are often left behind in the conversation, and their inventions and achievements are overlooked. Most people don’t know about Black women’s inventions of all kinds that people use every single day. Black women have contributed things to the world that have improved our daily lives. Without their contributions, …
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For generations, schools in the US have failed to teach children the actual reality of slavery. Children in schools have been spared the entire truth of how slavery took place in US history. Slavery was legal in the US for 246 years, and until 159 years ago, people were enslaved. Slavery has existed in America …
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