Meet Lewis Latimer, the African American who enlightened Thomas Edison

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By Brentin MockFeb 11, 2015, 8:34 pm36 pts
We’re interrupting your regularly scheduled programming on gentrification to bring you this Black History Month profile on Lewis H. Latimer, the African-American renaissance man who in the late 19th century helped not only invent the lightbulb, but also create the electric industry as we know it today. Yes,…

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