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Meet Granville T. Woods; inventor with 60 patents who defeated Thomas Edison at the Patent Office
In his lifetime, one of Cincinnati’s finest inventors, Granville T. Woods defeated Thomas Edison at Patent Office with 60 patents. His reputation was so high that the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette...
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Ann Moore Gregory; the first black woman to compete on the national amateur scene winning four hundred trophies
Golf was a source of conflict in her marriage especially when she reckoned her husband’s love for the sport deprived her and child of his time but when Ann Moore Gregory’s navy husband was...
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How the New Cross Fire killing 13 birthday celebrants united black activists
A party to celebrate the 16th birthday of Yvonne Ruddock at her home in Deptford-New Cross, south-east London will become known as the New Cross Fire of January 18, 1981 which claimed the lives of 13 black...
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Why it took 57 years to inter Cornelius Charlton, the only black Korean War medalist at the Arlington Cemetery?
American war heroes are celebrated, but not so much when the person is black. Although Sergeant Cornelius H. Charlton received a posthumous Medal of Honor – America’s highest military decoration...
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How black roller skaters went through humiliation at roller skating rinks
When Black got Soul is uttered, often the focus falls on blacks in music, sports and politics or leadership. But the experience of roller skating – as exercise, as family tradition, as social event,...
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Abandoned by birth parents and adopted family, African man adopts 13-year-old boy
Peter Mutabazi, who originally hailed from Uganda and ran away from his abusive home at 10 and found a parent figure who guided him through school has himself adopted Tony Mutabazi, whose parents abandoned...
