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Patented Then, Building What's Next Now
Marcus and Denise pair Black Innovators — Lewis Latimer, Granville Woods, Elijah McCoy, Garrett Morgan and Thomas Jennings, who patented the telephone drawings, the light bulb filament, train telegraphs and the traffic signal — with AfroTech 2026 in Houston, where more than 40,000 Black technologists are Building What's Next while Black founders still receive just 0.32 percent of U.S. venture capital. From the Black Innovators volume of the Left Out of the History Books series.📚 From the 'Left Out of the History Books' series by Carlos L. Young Sr. —…
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