This is an opinion column. A chair was just a chair — until Miriam Elizabeth Benjamin put a light and a bell on one. Benjamin was a schoolteacher, composer and inventor, born in 1861 in Charleston, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Throughout history, countless brilliant minds have built inventions that have transformed the way we live, work, and connect with ...

They say that winners write history and the losers - poetry. But in this case - where the following women were absolute winners - they were unfairly left out of the pages of history books. Or just ...

Henry E. Baker, the father of Black inventor research -- Early innovators and inventors -- Role of ancient African civilizations in the development of today's inventions and technologies -- ...