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Oscar Micheaux: First to put black films on the silver screen
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Feb 28, 2014
Micheaux incorporated African Americans from casting to funding to production
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Maggie Walker: Banking and civil rights
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Nick van der Kolk
Feb 27, 2014
Walker was a bank president, newspaper editor, and fraternal leader.
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Jackie Ormes: The first female African American cartoonist
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Nancy Goldstein
Feb 26, 2014
Jackie Ormes used cartoons to talk about the social and environmental issues that mattered to the black community. So why has she been forgotten?
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Thomas Jennings perfected dry cleaning as he pushed for abolition
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Dan Bobkoff
Feb 25, 2014
Thomas Jennings was the first African American to receive a U.S. patent, 44 years before slavery ended.
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Love the ice cream truck? Thank inventor Fred Jones
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Lewis Wallace
Feb 21, 2014
After Fred Jones lost a truckload of overheated chickens, he invented the refrigerated truck. Jones was self-taught, but took out 60 patents in his lifetime.
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Entrepreneur offers a better shave for growing market
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Noel King
Feb 10, 2014
With buying power up, black consumers are a new target for specialty products
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