Black history is not a summary of North-Star-slavery-escape stories that end with Black people receiving their freedom after a famous (often shortened) dream speech. Blackness’s
Lonnie Bunch, the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and the first African American and first historian to serve as head of the Smithsonian, talks
Garrett Morgan Publisher, Inventor (1877–1963) Garrett Morgan blazed a trail for African-American inventors with his patents, including those for a hair-straightening product, a