The past four hundred years have seen unprecedented growth in virtually every conceivable realm of life, from medicine to the arts, technology to finance. Far too often, however, when we think of the movers, shakers, and innovators behind these transformations, we picture a host of men--and white men, at that.
With Trailblazers, Gabrielle David remedies that. The first anthology of black female innovators published in more than fifteen...