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This is a group of ‘epicenter geniuses’. People so goddamn smart, other smart people gravitate towards their brilliance like planets around the sun, until the group gets so intelligent, they start inventing things that change the world. Like disease curing medicines… or city destroying atomic bombs. However, smart doesn’t ALWAYS mean ‘correct’. In fact, most geniuses make some brilliant mistakes along their path to higher enlightenment. Consider Viagra was a mistake discovered in th...

On This Day: L. Douglas Wilder takes office as first Black U.S. governor On Jan. 13, 1990, L. Douglas Wilder took office in Virginia, becoming the first elected Black governor of a U.S. state. By (0) L. Douglas Wilder (R) beams upon receiving the 75th NAACP Spingarn Medal from former recipient Percy Ellis Sutten (L) of New York on July 12, 1990, in Los Angeles. On Jan. 13, 1990, Wilder took office in Virginia, becoming the first elected African-American governor of a U.S. state. File Photo by...