Black Innovators 2027 Desktop Calendar

Honor twelve pioneering Black innovators all year long with the Black Innovators 2027 Desktop Calendar from Descendants of the Taken Ones (DTOA). Each month pairs original portrait artwork of a trailblazer with a gold-on-black 2027 date grid, and marks the days that matter — US federal holidays plus heritage and cultural observances including Juneteenth, Harriet Tubman Day, Slavery Remembrance Day, Indigenous Peoples' Day, Kwanzaa, Black History Month and Disability Pride Month. Every page also carries a short biography of the innovator.

The twelve innovators, in order: Madam C. J. Walker, who built a national hair-care business and used it to create jobs and fund civil-rights causes; Benjamin Banneker, the self-taught mathematician, astronomer and almanac author; Garrett A. Morgan, who patented the safety hood and an improved traffic signal; Granville T. Woods, whose inventions modernized railway communication; Elijah McCoy, whose automatic lubricator inspired the phrase “the real McCoy”; Dr. Charles R. Drew, who pioneered blood plasma preservation and helped establish modern blood banks; Frederick McKinley Jones, who revolutionized mobile refrigeration; Lewis Latimer, who improved electric-light technology and helped bring electricity into homes and cities; Dr. Christine Darden, the NASA mathematician and aerospace engineer whose research quieted the sonic boom; Dorothy Vaughan, NASA's first Black supervisor and a master of FORTRAN; Dr. Patricia Bath, inventor of the Laserphaco Probe; and Miriam E. Benjamin, who patented the Gong and Signal Chair that anticipated the modern call button.

• 10″ × 5″ spiral-bound desktop calendar, 13 pages — cover + 12 months
• Matte finish, heavyweight 270 g/m² paper, printed at 300 DPI
• Black spiral binding with table-top tent card for freestanding display
• US federal holidays plus heritage and cultural observances marked throughout
• Printed on demand in the US, exclusively for DTOA Designs

Want the same twelve innovators on the wall? They're also available as a 2027 wall calendar and a Black & Gold wall edition.

Read the full sourced history behind every innovator in the DTOA History Library.

A note on pricing & shipping

Printed calendars ship heavy, and carrier rates on them run high — sometimes close to the cost of the calendar itself. Rather than pass that along, we lowered our 2027 desktop calendars from $9.50 to $8.50. We would rather keep our history in your hands than protect a margin.

Desktop calendar shipping: United States $7.49 · everywhere else $12.59. Rates are flat by destination and shown at checkout before you pay.

Honoring the Past. Inspiring the Present. Empowering the Future.