You can listen to black history inventors historical facts through your speaker or headphones spoken by a real person in this app.

An excellent reference about black history inventors in the Amazon App Store, not just for Black History Month, but for anytime.  Developed by BlackHistoryPeople.com for Android.

She achieved her biggest hit in 1929 with “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out."

The influence of blues song stylist Smith can be heard in the music of Janis Joplin, Dinah Washington, Mahalia Jackson, and Billie Holiday.

Smith, known as “The Empress of the Blues” was discovered by blues singer Ma Rainey in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1910.

Are you ready for some spirited commentary and a frank warning with historical background written by Deeann D. Mathews about what happens when a music artist goes to work with a record label? Don’t be shocked by Black History the Music Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know!

Here’s a quick Black History People Photo Quiz we created featuring 5 interesting African Americans.

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857).

Brown v. Board of Education argued by Thurgood Marshall (1954).

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)...just 3 of 10 landmark Supreme Court decisions that influenced black history in the USA.

Caryn Freeman highlights 10 cases in a colorful slide show “Supreme Court cases that shaped black America.” Take a look!  (Thurgood Marshall is pictured here).

Love was a scout and range boss.  He led cattle drives, participated in rodeos, fought the native American Indians, and developed into quite a legend.  In 1907, he wrote his autobiography.

Rodeo cowboy Bill Pickett, (1860-1932), was born in Texas.  He developed the art of “bulldogging,” the technique of twisting the neck of a steer by the horns and wrestling it to the ground.

The brazen cowboy gained fame from his bulldogging practice of biting the lip or nose of steers.  Pickett was a super star on the wild west rodeo show circuit.

He toured with the 101 Ranch Wild West promotion throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, and England.

Pickett was kicked by a stallion and died in 1932.  He was the first African American cowboy inducted into the National Rodeo Hall of Fame in Oklahoma (1971).

These are the Real African American black history cowboys.

Marjorie Stewart Joyner came up with the wave curl in 1928.  Lewis Temple constructed a whaling harpoon in 1848.  Valerie Thomas tackled the illusion transmitter 1980.

It’s a revelation reviewing these resources in Black History Inventors, a free Android smart phone App with sound narration, developed by Hugh Smith, BlackHistoryPeople.com, and Quikthinking Software, available in the Amazon App Store, and from Google Play.

The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum in Detroit, Michigan is a great online black history resource for all things Tuskegee Airmen.  Discover more!

He’s published four books about the history of African Canadians, focusing on Nova Scotians.

Find out why Smith wants to get his latest book, The Journey Continues: An Atlantic Canadian Black Experience, into classrooms in New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Labrador, and Prince Edward Island.

Basketball legend and now author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar reveals an assortment of creative personalities in his book What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors.

Discover how the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Children’s Book Highlights Black Achievement.