Morris Nolton Turner[was an American cartoonist, creator of the strip Wee Pals, the first American syndicated strip with an integrated cast of characters. Turner was raised in Oakland, California, the youngest child of a Pullman porter father and a homemaker and nurse mother.[ He attended Cole Elementary School and McClymonds High School in Oakland and Berkeley High School. … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Notable Black Cartoonists
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Thursday Open Thread: Notable Black Cartoonists
Ray Billingsley is an American cartoonist, the creator of the comic strip Curtis, which is distributed by King Features Syndicate and printed in more than 250 newspapers nationwide. Billingsley was born in Wake Forest, North Carolina in 1957, and raised there in his earliest years. Later, his family moved to Harlem, in New York City. … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Notable Black Cartoonists
Wednesday Open Thread: Notable Black Cartoonists
Chester Commodore (August 22, 1914 – April 10, 2004) was an African-American cartoonist, both of political cartoons and comic strips. Born in Racine, Wisconsin, Commodore was always interested in drawing. His parents and sisters moved to Chicago in 1923, but Chester and his older brother stayed in Racine with his maternal grandmother in her boarding house until he moved to … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Notable Black Cartoonists
Saturday Open Thread: African-American Innovators
Janet Emerson Bashen (born February 12, 1957) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and business consultant. She patented a software program, LinkLIne, to assist with web-based Equal Employment Opportunity investigations making her the first African American woman to obtain a software patent. She founded a human resource consulting firm focusing on Equal Opportunity Employment … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: African-American Innovators
Friday Open Thread: African-American Innovators
Marie Van Brittan Brown (October 30, 1922 – February 2, 1999) was an African-American inventor. She was the inventor of the home security system (U.S. Patent 3,482,037) in 1966, along with her husband Albert Brown. In the same year, they jointly applied for a patent, which was granted in 1969. Brown was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York;[ she died there at the age of 76. … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: African-American Innovators