Are you familiar with the name Alice Parker? Alice H. Parker was an African American inventor famous for her patented system of central heating using natural gas. Before that, people used firewood and ...
Books have long been a cornerstone of cultural preservation and empowerment; this is especially true within the African-American community, where books created for us and by us have a history of being ...
People might not know that Phillis Wheatley was the first African American author of a published book of poetry in 1773. Or that Mary Fields was the first African American female mail carrier in 1895.