Inventions by African Americans into the 21st century include everything from toys to physics to aerospace technology.

While working as a porter, Alfred L. Cralle witnessed how hard it was to serve ice cream cones one-handed. He saved the day ...

African-American innovators and visionaries have developed or contributed to many things that are commonplace today — some ...

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Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the ...

Bernard Kiwia is the brains behind innovator school Twende, helping his community invent solutions to local problems. Produced with funding from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. From the Mouse ...

Zimbabwean officials have backtracked on their show of support for an “inventor” who claimed to have found a way to create ...

Black History Month celebrates the achievements of African Americans, but also the strangers who showed up as friends.