When thinking of early American inventors, the names Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson likely come to mind. How about Benjamin Banneker?He was a free black man living in Oella, Baltimore County, ...

BALTIMORE -- Baltimore County native Benjamin Banneker's contributions to Black history are stories of resilience, activism, and ingenuity. Banneker was born on a farm in 1731 in Oella, Maryland. Near ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Benjamin Banneker was a free man whose father and grandfather were formerly ...

Benjamin Banneker was a self-taught man of extraordinary ability. He was a gifted mathematician, astronomer, inventor, surveyor and almanac writer. He was a man determined to use his acquired ...

As Black History Month enters its final weekend, I thought it might be interesting to bring up the subject of Benjamin Banneker. While there is some controversy about Banneker's place in history, it ...

Benjamin Banneker was the first man to survey the land of what is now Washington, D.C. He also saved the fledgling U.S. government money when he re-created the architectural plans for the capital city ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — There's no winter break for supporters of Benjamin Banneker Charter Academy of Technology. They're still looking for a new sponsor. In October, the University of Central Missouri ...