Society

  • Mark Dean

    By on December 19, 2013

    Info provided by Black American History: Mark Dean was borin in 1957 in Jefferson City, TN.  After earning a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1979,...

  • Lewis Howard Latimer

    By on December 18, 2013

    Info provided by Black American History: Lewis Howard Latimer was born in 1848 in Massachusetts.  His mother and father were runaway slaves that eventually gained...

  • $110K George Zimmerman Original Painting

    By on December 17, 2013

    George Zimmerman either has to be the luckiest man currently walking the earth or people just have a true, genuine, yet weird fascination with this...

  • Marc Hannah

    By on December 17, 2013

    Info provided by Black American History: March Hannah was born in 1956 in Chicago, Illinois.  An electrical engineer & computer graphics designer, he received a...

  • Roy L. Clay Sr.

    By on December 16, 2013

    Info provided by Black American History: The Black Godfather of Silicon Valley Roy L. Clay Sr. was born in Kinloch, Missouri.  Coming from humble beginnings,...

  • Susie King Taylor

    By on December 14, 2013

    Info provided by Wikipedia: Susie King Taylor (August 6, 1848 – October 6, 1912) was an African American army nurse; she worked with black Union...

  • Dr. Patricia E. Bath

    By on December 13, 2013

    Info provided by Wikipedia Patricia Era Bath, born November 4, 1942 in Harlem, New York is an American ophthalmologist, inventor, & academic.  She has broken...

  • Lonnie Johnson

    By on December 12, 2013

    Info provided by Wikipedia Lonnie George Johnson, born October 6, 1949  in Mobile, Alabama, is an American engineer.  Johnson invented the Super Soaker water gun,...

  • The Four Fears

    By on December 11, 2013

    EVERY ONE OF US has a bit of an activist in our blood. It’s the truth – the onyx truth – being that we as...

  • What Is The Onyx Truth?

    By on December 9, 2013

    We live in a world where it appears everybody is screaming for attention these days but offering very little in terms of providing something meaningful...