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BLACK INNOVATORS

FUTURE BLACK HISTORY ICONS

I'm proud to say there are those among us that may represent the next generation of Black History icons. Luckily for us, technology prevents our accomplishments and community icons from being swept under the rug the way they have been in the past. Today I'd like to honor a few of the many that are out there... our future Black History figures.

A collective organized to staunch the rampant police brutality taking place in Chicago and across the U.S. In 2014, We Charge Genocide presented their case before the United Nations Committee Against Torture in Geneva, Switzerland. They continue to make their mark in the fight for Human Rights so their work is far from over and their drive is far from depleted. www.wechargegenocide.org

It pretty much goes witihout saying but... Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States, and the first African American to hold the office (if you don't count Eisenhower). This first was not the only one for Obama as he introduced the Affordable Health Care Act that created a national universal health care program, re-established a relationship between America and Cuba, and "got" Osama Bin Laden, all with unprecedented opposition and disrespect from Congress.

Dr. Patricia Bath

1942 - Present

INVENTOR OF LASIK SURGERY TECHNOLOGY

This amazing woman is a doctor of opthamology and researcher. In 1977, she co-founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness whose missionis the prevention and cure of blindness among all.

Dr. Bath is also a laser scientist and inventor. Her interest, experience, and research on cataracts lead to her invention of a new device and method to remove cataracts—the laserphaco probe. When she first conceived of the device in 1981, her idea was more advanced than the technology available at the time. It took her nearly five years to complete the research and testing needed to make it work and apply for a patent. Consequently, she became the first African American female doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention (#4,744,360). With the keratoprosthesis device, Dr. Bath was able to recover the sight of several individuals who had been blind for over 30 years.

Lonnie George Johnson

FORMER NASA ENGINEER,

ENERGY TECHNOLOGY RESEARCHER,

& INVENTOR OF THE SUPER SOAKER

Lonnie Johnson is an inventor and engineer who holds more than 80 patents. Johnson is most known for inventing the Super Soaker

water gun, which has ranked among the world's top 20 best-selling toys ever year since its release.

Two of Johnson’s companies, Excellatron Solid State and Johnson Electro-Mechanical Systems (JEMS), are developing revolutionary energy technology. Excellatron is introducing a new generation of rechargeable battery technology which has the potential to revolutionize the battery industry. Providing a source of energy many times that which exists today in a substantially reduced size, this technology will solve many of the problems related to technology mobility in the future. JEMS has developed a thermodynamic energy conversion technology that converts thermal energy to electrical energy with significant advantages over alternative systems. This technology has the potential to revolutionize the global energy market when fully commercialized. http://youtu.be/2og084xdgQM

Tony Hansberry

1994 - Present

INVENTOR of HYSTERECTOMY METHOD

Whiz kid Tony Hansberry Jr., 20, was a high school student at Darnell Cookman School of Medical Arts when he developed a technique that reduces the surgical time for hysterectomies.

Hansberry’s method proved to be three times faster than the traditional method. In 2009, Hansberry, age 15 at the time, demonstrated his technique to a large assembly of doctors and surgeons as part of the University of Florida’s medical education week.

Sandile Kubheka

1994 - Present

SOUTH AFRICA'S KID MEDICAL DOCTOR

While others his age were just getting into the swing of high school life, Sandile Kubheka started studying medicine at 16. He has now become South Africa's youngest doctor, four years ahead of schedule.

Since then, Kubheka, now 21, has been honored with a slew of awards for his community work and medical achievements, and was nominated for an MTV Africa Music Award for leadership. These awards acknowledge not just his obvious precocity, but his help in under-serviced communities, his care of patients at a student-run clinic; and volunteering in the labs of rural hospitals, to serve the community and hone his own skills.

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