To understand more fully their relevance in America today.
"When we look at black inventors, most did not have the same opportunity white ones did. We have to create a new metric of what success is. We can still consider them as African-American heroes or champions. But it's most important that we develop a deeper, more nuanced understanding of what their lives were like and what their relationships were to the larger world."
| A quote from Professor Rayvon Fouché, an assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Teresa Riordan's New York Times article "Scholar Examines Black Inventors"
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