Lonnie Johnson was brought up in Mobile, Alabama in the 1960s, when Black children were not expected to go far. But such was his talent for engineering that he worked for NASA, and helped test the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Song and music marked the beginning of Saturday's Black History Month celebration at the Bronzeville Children's Museum. A diverse group of kids and their families enjoyed a two-hour ...

Most high school students have never heard of Onesimus. He was an enslaved African man who was instrumental in the mitigation of smallpox in Boston. In 1721, Onesimus introduced his owner, Cotton ...

Inventors come up with a lot of clever things to make our lives easier, but just imagine the world without this invention, so powerful, so fast, so fun -- the SuperSoaker.