Roots and Blooms explores the inventions and scientific breakthroughs of Black Botanists and Horticulturalists.

At the stroke of noon on February 15, 1965, Canada’s red and white maple leaf flag was raised for the very first time on Parliament Hill. On the same day in 1996, National Flag of Canada Day was ...

A genetic study at the University of Georgia (UGA) concluded that any more than three leaves on a clover are due to a genetic mutation in the genome of the common clover species, white clover (or ...

Many Black inventors struggled through hardship, poverty, and, in some circumstances, slavery. Still, they prevailed and proved their genius to the world. The following are but a few of the many ...

Owen Poole, a Certified Sleep Science Coach and proclaimed mattress expert, has been producing sleep video content in the wellness space for over three years. After earning his certification from ...

But the schools I went to in areas outside of London where you are one of ten Black people, I was drawing from that. ‘The feeling never really leaves you ... was majority-white for a long ...

In a startling announcement, Nigerian music icon Innocent Idibia, better known as 2Baba, revealed that he and his ‘Young, Famous & African’ reality TV star wife, Annie Macaulay-Idibia, have ...

Leaf development describes the coordinated morphogenesis process by which a leaf is formed, and grows to become a mature photosynthetic organ. It starts from the initiation of a primordium in the ...

Nick Nurse said after the Philadelphia 76ers win over the Chicago Bulls on Saturday night that Paul George “jammed” the pinky on his left hand and will have an MRI done Sunday. What a vicious ...

Monstera certainly meets the criteria and as NGB declared it is “the world’s most iconic indoor plant.” The large, glossy, heart-shaped leaves have ... by a cupped white sheath (spathe).