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For centuries, America celebrated invention while erasing the inventors.
Behind the machines, medicines, and modern comforts that define progress lies a hidden story — the story of stolen brilliance.
In Erased & Stolen Brilliance: How Black Inventions, Innovations and Historic Breakthroughs Were Stolen, Co-opted, Denied, or Forgotten, author Maurice Woodson uncovers the suppressed legacy of Black innovators whose ideas transformed the world — yet whose names were buried or forgotten. From the enslaved craftspeople who revolutionized agriculture and domestic life, to the scientists and engineers whose breakthroughs powered space travel, medicine, and modern technology, their genius built the foundation of America itself.
Through meticulous research and restored historical truth, Woodson exposes how Black inventors were denied patents, robbed of credit, and written out of history books — while their inventions enriched others and fueled an illusion of white exceptionalism.
This is not just a history book. It’s a revelation — a long-overdue restoration of truth, legacy, and pride. Erased & Stolen Brilliance challenges what we’ve been taught and reclaims the story of the real architects of American progress.
The brilliance was never lost. It was buried. Now, it is finally being uncovered.
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From the rise of Black elected officials during Reconstruction to the election of Barack Obama, every milestone of Black progress in America has been met with a wave of white resistance. Lynching, voter suppression, segregation, mass incarceration, police brutality, and attacks on diversity are not separate events — they are chapters of the same unending war.
In The UnWhitewashed Truth: America’s Unending War on Black Freedom, Maurice Woodson traces the line from the 19th century to today, showing how the same fears that drove the creation of Jim Crow laws now fuel MAGA politics, racist media, and attacks on affirmative action and DEI.
This book dismantles the myth of a “post-racial America” and exposes the ongoing structures of power that continue to target Black existence.
A bold, urgent, and eye-opening account, this book is for readers who want the truth about America’s past and present — and who refuse to look away.
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