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When people who earn transformative success reach out to ensure other people have meaningful opportunities, commendation is due. That is exactly what Lonnie Johnson, a Black inventor and engineer, is doing with his nonprofit Johnson STEM Activity Center. The nonprofit pays for high school robotics teams in Atlanta. As Blavity reported, one of the teams […]

After a lengthy court battle, the rightful creator of the “Super Soaker” toy has been awarded $72.9 million. Johnson Research and Development Co. and founder Lonnie Johnson were in a royalty dispute with Hasbro toy company since February over royalties accrued for the Nerf line toys between 2007 and 2012.