BALTIMORE — Benjamin Banneker — who was born a freed Black man in Baltimore County in 1731 — is known mostly as an astronomer and mathematician, who also penned a letter to Thomas Jefferson about race ...

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 ...

Mathematician and astronomer Benjamin Banneker was born on Nove.r 9, 1731, in Ellicott’s Mills, Maryland. Largely self-taught, Banneker was one of the first African Americans to gain distinction in ...

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1731, Benjamin Banneker was born in Maryland. He was one of the first African Americans to gain distinction in science. His significant accomplishments and correspondence with ...

Illustration of Benjamin Banneker, 1731-1806. American mathematician, astronomer, writer, and farmer. (Getty Images) Children all across the United States often fantasize about growing up to be an ...

WASHINGTON -- November 9 carries a historical significance for Washington, D.C. – it’s the birth date of the African American man who surveyed Washington, D.C., planning it into the city it is today.

SOLEDAD: WELCOME BACK TO "MAERTT OFAC FT." IT HAPPENS EVERY COUPLE OF DECADES. EVERY 17 YEARS TO BE EXA.CT THE APPEARANCE OF A DRONING CHORUS OF CICAS.DA THIS YEAR, YOU’VE HEARD THEIR SHRILL TONES IN ...

Benjamin Banneker – a free Black man born in 1731 – is best known for a land survey that established the original borders of Washington, D.C. But the naturalist also broke ground in another field: ...

One of the uncommon Americans of the eighteenth century is a man so neglected today that the Dictionary of American Biography, which lists the great and the not-so-great of the past, does not bother ...

SOLEDAD: WELCOME BACK TO "MAERTT OFAC FT." IT HAPPENS EVERY COUPLE OF DECADES. EVERY 17 YEARS TO BE EXA.CT THE APPEARANCE OF A DRONING CHORUS OF CICAS.DA THIS YEAR, YOU’VE HEARD THEIR SHRILL TONES IN ...