Pull up Google on Monday, and you'll see a doodle of a Black man next to a stack of patents, gazing at an old-fashioned train. That's Elijah McCoy, the revolutionary Black inventor who was born 178 ...

NPR reports McCoy’s parents escaped slavery in Kentucky using the Underground Railroad, before settling in Canada and giving birth to Elijah in 1844. At the age of 25, McCoy traveled to Scotland to ...

May 2 (UPI) --Google is celebrating Black Canadian-American engineer and inventor Elijah McCoy, who made great strides in improving train efficiency, with a new Doodle. Google's homepage features ...

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CONCORD — The third episode of the Department of Education’s four-part series “Stories of Courage,” a Black History Month project recognizing the societal contributions of largely unknown Black ...

Elijah McCoy, the revolutionary Black inventor who was born 178 years ago today, came up with an idea for an automatic lubricator that kept... Pull up Google on Monday, and you'll see a doodle of a ...