Marie Van Brittan Brown and her husband, Albert, filed for the patent in 1966 and received approval three years later.

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WHAT IS THE cost of discrimination? Lisa Cook, the first black woman to sit on the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, has built a career on finding empirical answers to that question. More than a ...

We look back at the seminal economic research that helped Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook make her name in economics. Federal Reserve Board governor Lisa Cook is in the headlines this week because ...

Across the country, the teaching of Black history is under attack. Many parents and advocates say they don’t trust schools to do it justice — and for good reason. Curriculum standards there have ...

“Washington Black,” Hulu’s action-packed odyssey that’s based on Esi Edugyan’s fictional 2018 novel of the same name, has officially landed. And we have all the details about how to tune in. The ...

“Washington Black” stars Ernest Kingsley Junior and Sterling K. Brown said their new Hulu series, which is based on Esi Edugyan’s fictional 2018 novel about a young, Black inventor’s journey through ...

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, ...

The federal holiday, celebrated on June 19, is embraced as a nationwide celebration of Black history. Here’s how and where to partake. By Nia Decaille On June 19, 1865, a Union general informed ...