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Meet Annie Malone, the Millionaire Black Hair Care Icon Who Owned Several Mansions
Meet Maggie Lena Walker, the First African American Woman to Own a Bank
It Took Only 16 Hours to Destroy Black Wall Street — 1,000 Black-Owned Businesses and Homes!
Meet the Founder of the Oldest and Largest Black-Owned Life Insurance Company
The History of the First African American Fire Company in Chicago
Meet Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
This Former Slave Invented a Unique Propeller For Steamboats But Wasn’t Allowed to Patent It
Did Colonel Sanders Steal His KFC Recipe From a Black Woman Named Miss Childress?
Atlanta’s First Black Millionaire Started Out as a Barber
A Black Woman Invented the First Home Security System With TV Surveillance in 1966
A Stitch in Time: 4 Black Designers Who Made Fashion History
5 Black Inventors Who Made Their Mark on Society
The Oldest African-American Owned Business in the United States
Sarah Rector Was Just 11-Years Old When She Became the Richest Girl in America in 1913
George Washington Carver Did Not Invent Peanut Butter -- But He Did Invent 300 Ways to Use Peanuts (and Sweet Potatoes)!
The First 6 African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
The Recipe For Jack Daniel’s Whiskey Was Actually Invented By a Black Man — A Former Slave!
Meet the Black Woman Who Created VOIP — The Technology Behind Skype, Zoom and More!