R.I.P. Betty Reid Soskin

Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest park ranger in the United States [click here if you missed that] has died age 104...

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Celebrating Dr. Helen Octavia Dickens first Black American woman admitted to the American College of Surgeons...

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Celebrating architect, Robert Kennard, founder of the oldest continuously-operating African American architecture firm in L.A...

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Celebrating boxer, businessman, and inventor, Jack Johnson, the first Black heavy weight champion boxer in the United States...

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Celebrating Barbara Hillary, the first Black woman to travel to the North Pole and South Pole ...

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Celebrating Mario Hoover the first student from Chicago’s Providence-St. Mel School to receive a perfect score on the ACT...

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Celebrating, Daniel Webster '80 John' Wallace, a Texas cattle rancher who was born enslaved but became one of the most successful and respected ranchers in the West, owning more than 8,000 acres of land and amassing a personal fortune of more than a million dollars at the time of his death, and whose descendants still run his ranch today...

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Remembering the first Park Rangers in the United States, comprised of the all Black army regiment of the Buffalo Soldiers, after the Civil War...

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Celebrating Nicodemus, Kansas, the oldest remaining all-Black settlement west of the Mississippi River...

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Celebrating pathologist, Dr. Ruth Easterling, who worked with Dr. William Augustus Hinton to develop the Hinton test for syphilis...

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Celebrating, Sarah Rector, who at 11-years old became the richest Black child in the United States...

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Celebrating graphic artist, Jewel Ham, who designed Spotify's popular year end 'Wrapped,' story concept as an intern, but was never credited or offered a job...

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Remembering Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, founded in 1870 in Washington, D.C., the first public high school for Black children in the United States...

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Celebrating businessman, Henry G. Parks Jr., founder of the first Black owned corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange...

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Celebrating U.S. Navy veteran, Rufus J. Weaver, inventor of the stair climbing wheelchair...

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Celebrating Dr. Jane Hinton, a pioneer in the study of antibiotic resistance who co-developed the Mueller-Hinton agar, a culture medium still commonly used to test bacterial susceptibility to antibiotics...

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Celebrating Shama Yisrael, the first Black female Chess Master in the United States...

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Celebrating unsung couturier, Anne Lowe, designer for Jackie Kennedy's wedding gown....

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Remembering the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School in Philadelphia, the second hospital founded by Black people in the United States...

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Celebrating guitarist Peggy 'Lady Bo' Jones, the woman who helped shape Bo Diddley's iconic sound...