Otis Frank Boykin invented the wire precision resistor. He had his college education at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, while working as a laboratory assistant [...]

In the 1940s, it was rare to see a Black woman on an Ivy League campus. However, Evelyn Boyd Granville defied all odds as a [...]

Dr. Clarence Ellis was a Computer Scientist, and he was the first African-American to become a fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).  Ellis [...]

Katherine Johnson is one of the African-Americans whose untold story was brought to light through ‘Hidden Figures’ in 2016. Her work to make space flight [...]

Dr Shirley Jackson is a famous black inventor and theoretical physicist that has contributed greatly to technology. As a child, she had a keen interest [...]

Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell are names that are recognized as indispensable in history. However, the vital contribution of Lewis H Latimer to patent [...]

Roy L Clay had a groundbreaking contribution to the tech field, such that he is called the Godfather of Silicon Valley. He was one of [...]

The internet would have been a fragment of man’s dreams without Emmit McHenry’s work. It is safe to say that he created the internet and [...]

Lisa Gelobter stands out as a pioneering computer scientist in internet technologies. In 1991 at the age of 20, she obtained a computer science degree [...]

Mary W Jackson was the first African-American female engineer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA. She was an important member of the group [...]