March 23, 2026

They Erased Their Names But Not Their Legacy: 30 Inventions By Black People

They Erased Their Names But Not Their Legacy: 30 Inventions By Black People
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They Erased Their Names But Not Their Legacy: 30 Inventions By Black People
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They didn't put these names in your textbooks. They didn't teach you this in school. But the truth is — Black inventors built the lights in your home, the GPS in your phone, the pacemaker keeping someone's grandmother alive, the microphone we're recording this on, and the internet you're watching this on right now. In this episode of Past Present Pushback, XO, AZ, and CDA sit down and name 30 Black inventors whose work runs the modern world — and tell the human stories behind every single one of them. The theft. The erasure. The resilience. The genius. This is the history they buried. We're bringing it back.


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