As Du Bois once pointedly asked, “Would America have been America without her Negro people?” "Imagine our society if you extract black folk from it ... There goes jazz. There goes the (1949) Armistice Agreements, if not for Ralph Bunche. I don’t want to think of a world without Dr. King. And what about the great athletes, Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali? And in L.A. we’d be in trouble without Garrett Morgan and his traffic light." The exhibit, celebrating nearly 500 years of African-American contributions to our country and the world, is up through April 15 at the California Science Center in Exhibition Park, 39th and Figueroa streets, Los Angeles. Full Article at Ventura County Star