Black History Month: Celebrating Jerry Lawson, The Man Who Invented Video Games
Black History Month: Celebrating Jerry Lawson, The Man Who Invented Video Games
Story by Stacey Henley •
It's Black History Month, and that means we're going to see a celebration of iconic Black figures like Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson, and Harriet Tubman, all the way up to modern day Black heroes like Simone Biles. However, there's one especially influential figure in gaming that we should all know a lot more about, and yet his name has not been immortalised in history in the way it ought to be, given the cultural power gaming now holds. Meet Jerry Lawson, the man who invented video games.
If you've ever held a video game in your hand, you have held a piece of Jerry Lawson's legacy between your fingers.
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Story by Stacey Henley •
It's Black History Month, and that means we're going to see a celebration of iconic Black figures like Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson, and Harriet Tubman, all the way up to modern day Black heroes like Simone Biles. However, there's one especially influential figure in gaming that we should all know a lot more about, and yet his name has not been immortalised in history in the way it ought to be, given the cultural power gaming now holds. Meet Jerry Lawson, the man who invented video games.
If you've ever held a video game in your hand, you have held a piece of Jerry Lawson's legacy between your fingers.
READ MORE: Black History Month: Celebrating Jerry Lawson, The Man Who Invented Video Games https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/black-hi...
