Stephenson and her 6-year-old son released a book designed to teach youth about Black STEM pioneers.

EW YORK (PRWEB) MARCH 04, 2022 O. O. Kandison, a Nigerian native who started anew in Las Vegas, has completed her new book “Efemona”: an intriguing...

SEATTLE — An estimated 72,000 people in Washington have glaucoma, and half of them don’t know it.

Many of them are people of color, and African-Americans are at particular risk.

Former artist and standup comedian Glen Jones lost most of his eyesight to glaucoma.  As it happens, his beloved mother had glaucoma, too.

Rescued words: Voices of Creoles of color heard again in book

You Don’t Know Us Negroes by Zora Neale Hurston review – fearless and dazzling essays

Augusta Savage was one of the most important Black artists and activists of all time. A sculptor, and a critical part of the Harlem Renaissance, she was also a teacher. Her studio was a crucial influence on the development of a string of artists who would go on to be internationally recognised, including Jacob Lawrence.

JOPLIN – Black poets have contributed greatly to the English literature of the United States.

For example, Joplin-born Langston Hughes (1901-1967) was a vibrant contributor to the Harlem Renaissance, an African American literary movement of the 1920s and 1930s. His poetry has become a must-read in most high school and college classes studying American literature. But, despite his poetic ingenuity and power, Hughes was hardly a man of faith – at least, not a man of the biblical Christian faith. He sparked controversy with a 1932 poem, “Goodbye, Christ,” in which the poet tells Christ to “beat it” and “make way for a new guy with no religion at all.”

African American pioneers of invention exhibition open at African American Museum through March 19

Dallas, Texas -- Did you know that the three-light traffic light was invented by an African American? Or that laser cataract surgery was invented by a female African American ophthalmologist? And that Richard Bowie Spikes devised the first automatic transmission?