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Jamaica Kincaid (/kɪnˈkeɪd/; born May 25, 1949)[1] is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in St. John’s, Antigua (part of the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda). She lives in North Bennington, Vermont and…
Nadya Mason is the Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a condensed matter experimentalist, she works on the quantum limits of low-dimensional systems. Mason is the…
Shirley Ann Jackson, FREng (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the first African-American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of…
Homo naledi is an extinct species of archaic human discovered in 2013 in the Rising Star Cave, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa dating to the Middle Pleistocene 335,000–236,000 years ago. The initial discovery comprises 1,550 specimens, representing 737 different…
Oryza glaberrima, commonly known as African rice, is one of the two domesticated rice species.[1] It was first domesticated and grown in West Africa around 3,000 years ago.[2][3] In agriculture, it has largely been replaced by higher-yielding…
Onesimus (late 1600s–1700s[1]) was an African man who was instrumental in the mitigation of the impact of a smallpox outbreak in Boston, Massachusetts. His birth name is unknown. He was enslaved…
Negrito skull confirms Taiwan indigenous legends of ‘little Black people’ 6,000-year-old skull found in Taitung cave was that of a woman who was 139 cm tall Cranial profile of the…
The Ishango bone, discovered at the “Fisherman Settlement” of Ishango in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is a bone tool and possible mathematical device that dates to the Upper Paleolithic era.[1] The curved bone is dark…