Cleveland inventor Garrett A. Morgan, a son of former slaves, had a gift for inventing life-saving devices, including firefighter gas masks and the precursors of modern traffic lights.

The scientific community recently acknowledged that a Black American, and not a White European, invented the gas mask that Allied troops carried into battle to protect against chemical attacks in ...

The exhibition “demonstrates how political activism drives a wealth of design ingenuity and collective creativity that defy standard definitions of art and design,” according to the museum ...

Some 11 hours later, desperate to save anyone still alive, the Cleveland Police turned to Garrett A. Morgan—a local inventor who called himself “the Black Edison”—and the gas mask he had ...

FESTIVE decorations in an air-raid shelter and the Queen’s first ever festive speech are among the fascinating pictures bringing Christmas past back to life. The black and white images, stret… ...

'I was in so much pain and screaming into the gas mask': White Island victim recalls moment her skin started falling off. The first Australian witness in a trial over the deadly White Island ...

By late Monday, campaign officials were already tweeting a black-and-white photo of him walking to the church with a coterie of aides in his wake. Tim Murtaugh, the campaign’s top spokesman ...

As part of Black History Month, we remember Garrett Augustus Morgan, a Cleveland inventor and businessman best known for creating the modern-day gas mask and traffic light. Morgan, the son of ...

Wearing a black sweatshirt with “Manhattan 62″ emblazoned on the front and white stripes on the sleeves, she is every inch today. Her nails are painted burgundy, almost brown, and around her ...

Lillian White, an art teacher at Great Hearts Western Hills, a public charter school in San Antonio, began wearing a face mask that read “Black Lives Matter” and “Silence is Violence ...