My mother knew how to iron. I should have paid more attention. I remember her standing over the ironing board, forming crisp fresh-smelling stacks of linens. I did not take further note because, back ...

On April 26, 1892, Sarah Boone made history as the fourth Black woman in the U.S. to be awarded a patent for her collapsible ironing board invention. Boone’s accomplishment becomes even more ...

Black women have made nothing out of something, and they became inventors out of necessity and ease of life. Sarah Boone was no different when she invented the modern ironing board. Boone made a name ...