FACTORY CONTINUES THAT TRADITION TO THREE WITH THE CUTTING OF A RIBBON. A NEW ERA GOT UNDERWAY IN MANUFAC FRING IN SOMERSWORTH. TODAY IS IS A NEW BEGINNING FOR AN OPPORTUNITY TO CHANGE SOME LIVES WITH ...

Earlier this year, DSW parent company Designer Brands Inc. and Pensole Lewis College of Business & Design (PLC) cut the ribbon to their new JEMS by Pensole factory in Somersworth, N.H., the first ...

Designer Brands Inc., a world-renowned footwear and accessories collective, has announced the future release of the FIRST JEM. This inaugural shoe will kick off the JEMS by PENSOLE brand and will also ...

The exhibition, The Real McCoy: African-American Invention and Innovation, included three short documentary films: Lewis Temple and Hunting the Whale, Jan E. Matzeliger, and Norbert Rillieux. Lewis ...

One-hundred and forty years since biracial inventor Jan Ernst Matzeliger patented the automated shoe laster, less than 3 percent of footwear designers and fewer than 1 percent of brand owners today ...

Local News Lynn Museum celebrates city’s most prominent Black citizens The exhibition includes original documents of freed and traded enslaved people, including inventor Lewis Latimer and Jan Ernst ...