Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since 1976, February has been designated as Black History Month. Like everywhere in America, Fall River has been shaped profoundly ...

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, ...

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 -- ...

In 1926, during the nadir of Black history, Dr. Carter G. Woodson—the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the son of formerly enslaved parents, a ...

The Glens Falls Firefighters Association is thanking everyone for the overwhelming support shown for one of their own who was recently injured on-duty.Micki Guy 9-year-old struck by vehicle in Chatham ...

Join Propeller as its LEGO Club teams up with Black History Month Columbus to celebrate brilliant Black inventors and learn about their creations with local inventor David Bosley from Aeroflux. All ...