Tweet (ThyBlackMan.com) African American Lewis Latimer invented the filament for the light bulb that illuminates our homes and brings motion pictures to life. The first feature length film was D. W. Griffith’s Birth of A Nation (1915). Up until then movies were never more than 30 minutes. Birth Of A Nation, though, was three hours … Continue reading Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, And Bucks.