Black History Month is a good time to celebrate notable Black scientists, like Katherine Johnson, Benjamin Banneker, and more ...

On August 19, 1791, Benjamin Banneker wrote a lengthy letter to Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, in which "having taken up my pen in order to direct to you as a present, a copy of an ...

Benjamin Banneker was one of the most famous black ... accurately forecasting lunar and solar eclipse, and mathematics. Banneker, who was also a farmer, published six farmers’ almanacs using ...