The Father of the Video Game Cartridge: Jerry Lawson’s Forgotten Legacy
The facts, then. In 1976, a Black engineer from Brooklyn named Gerald "Jerry" Lawson led the team that released the Fairchild Channel F, the...
Cyrille Regis – The Striker Who Got a Bullet in the Post for Playing...
The facts, then. In 1977, a 19-year-old striker from French Guiana signed for West Bromwich Albion. His name was Cyrille Regis. Within two years,...
Arthur Ashe: The Quiet Champion Who Took on Wimbledon, Apartheid, and AIDS
On July 5, 1975, a 31-year-old Black man from Richmond, Virginia, walked onto Centre Court at Wimbledon. He was about to play Jimmy Connors,...
Althea Gibson – The Queen of Wimbledon Who Almost Became a Footnote
In 1957, a 29-year-old woman from Harlem stood on Centre Court at Wimbledon and lifted the trophy. She was the first Black champion in...
The Prime Minister They Dissolved in Acid: Patrice Lumumba’s 65-Year Fight for Justice
The facts, then. On January 17, 1961, a 35-year-old man was led from a jeep at an airport in Elisabethville, Katanga. He had been...
Fannie Lou Hamer – The Woman They Beat in Jail and Ignored on TV
The facts, then. On August 22, 1964, a Black sharecropper from Mississippi sat before the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic...
The Slave Ship Named Jesus: How a German Carrack Launched England’s Slave Trade
A ship called Jesus of Lübeck launched from a German port around 1520. It was a carrack, a large sailing vessel weighing about 700...
David Isom Desegregated Swimming Pools 1958
On June 8, 1958, a 19-year-old Black man named David Isom walked up to the ticket window at the Spa Pool in St. Petersburg,...
Hannibal Barca – Rome’s Greatest Enemy Who Became the Father of Strategy
The facts, then. Hannibal Barca was born in Carthage in 247 BCE. His name in Punic meant "grace of Ba'al", the supreme god of...
Ernest E. Just – The Cell Surface Pioneer Science Ignored
The facts, then. Ernest Everett Just was born on August 14, 1883, in Charleston, South Carolina. His father and grandfather were builders. When Just...
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