Black History Month Beaumont TX – Remembering Lewis Howard Latimer

Black History Month in Southeast Texas Remembering Black Inventor Lewis Howard Latimer Black History Month Beaumont TX – Meet Lewis Howard Latimer the African American inventor who helped Thomas Edison invent the light bulb and Alexander Graham Bell invent the telephone. Thomas Edison is credited with the invention of the light bulb and is perhaps the most famous of the American inventors. Alexander Graham Bell is known as the father of the telephone and is certainly one of... Read More

Southeast Texas Black History Facts and Fashion – How Did the Expression “Real McCoy” Originate?

Black History in the Golden Triangle Remembering the Black Inventor Elijah McCoy On today’s edition of Southeast Texas Black History Facts and Fashion we look at the Black inventor who inspired the term “Real McCoy”. Inventor Elijah McCoy was born in Canada to parents who had fled from Slavery in the United States. Elijah McCoy’s parents arranged for him to go to Scotland at 15 to train as an engineer. When he returned, he did not find companies in Canada or The United... Read More

Black History Month Beaumont TX – Do you know Dr. Charles Richard Drew?

Black History Month in Beaumont Remembering Dr. Charles Richard Drew Have you or a loved one received a blood transfusion after an accident? They just may owe their lives to this ground breaking African American Doctor, Charles Drew. DREW, CHARLES RICHARD Dr. Charles Richard Drew (1904-1950) was an American medical doctor and surgeon who started the idea of a blood bank and a system for the long term preservation of blood plasma (he found that plasma kept longer than whole blood).... Read More