Ophthalmologist Dr. Patricia Bath and computer engineer Marian Croak will join the likes of Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and Steve Jobs. BY CONNIE LIN The National Inventors Hall of Fame, which…
Month: February 2022
How a 1946 dispute over a broken radio in Tennessee helped spark the civil rights movement
Mike Christen The Daily Herald COLUMBIA, Tenn. – A historical marker recognizing one of the most pivotal moments in Columbia’s history was installed in 2016 on a broken sidewalk in front of an abandoned building,…
How Motown Broke Racial Barriers Like No Other Record Label
In the way its music was presented and the universal themes its artists sang of, Motown broke racial barriers to move everyone, no matter their skin colour. Published on February 21,…
How Oregon’s Second Largest City Vanished in a Day
A 1948 flood washed away the WWII housing project Vanport—but its history still informs Portland’s diversity Natasha Geiling February 18, 2015 The mere utterance of Vanport was known to send…
Josephine Baker Is The First Black Woman Who Will Be Buried At The Pantheon In Paris
PARIS — The remains of American-born singer and dancer Josephine Baker will be reinterred at the Pantheon monument in Paris, making the entertainer who is a World War II hero…
‘Black skin was a death warrant’: how the East St Louis race massacre was an omen for racial violence to come
Four years before the Tulsa race massacre, white mobs firebombed homes and decimated a Black community in Illinoisby Bayeté Ross Smith. Essay by Susan Smith Richardson The racial violence in East St Louis, Illinois, on 2 July 1917…