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Celebrating, Jessica Hyatt, the youngest Black woman to achieve the National Master chess title in the United States, making history at age 19 as the highest ranked Black American female chess player in history...

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Celebrating Walter Moses Burton, the first Black American elected sheriff in the United States...

R.I.P. Viola Ford Fletcher

Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, has passed away at age 111...

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Celebrating songwriter Rose Marie McCoy a prolific composer who wrote and co-wrote over 800 songs for some of the music industry's biggest stars including Big Maybelle, James Brown, Ruth Brown, Nat King Cole, Aretha Franklin, Johnny Mathis, Elvis Presley, Linda Ronstadt, Ike & Tina Turner and Sarah Vaughn....

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Celebrating enslaved cook James Hemmings, brother of Sally Hemmings, the first American Master Chef...

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Celebrating attorney, educator and civil rights activist, William Henry Hastie, the first Black person appointed federal appellate judge...

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Celebrating First Lieutenant Gabrielle White, the first woman to compete in and complete the U.S. Army's Best Ranger Competition...

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Celebrating inventor George Cook who patented the Automatic Fishing Device — a spring- loaded reel that could pull in the catch automatically...

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Celebrating inventor Shelby Davidson who patented the paper-rewinding device...

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Celebrating speed skater Erin Jackson the first Black woman to win an individual Olympic Gold medal at the Winter Games...

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Celebrating Macon Bolling Allen, the first Black lawyer and judge in the United States...

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Celebrating blues guitarist and vocalist Memphis Minnie...

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Celebrating Minnie Cox, the first Black female Postmaster in the United States and founder of the Delta Penny Savings Bank and Mississippi Life Insurance Company...

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Celebrating educator Septima Poinsette Clark the Mother of the Civil Rights movement...

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Celebrating attorney Henry E. Baker the first person to compile a list of Black patent holders...

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Celebrating Lt. Colonel Allen Allensworth founder of the first Black town in California...

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Remembering Henrietta Lacks, whose unique immortal cells were harvested without her knowledge, consent, or compensation and used for countless medical breakthroughs, from the polio vaccine to cancer research and IVF and are still being used today...

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Celebrating Georgia Gilmore who used her culinary skills and Club Nowhere to help fund the Montgomery, AL civil rights movement...

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Celebrating the oldest church congregation in the United States Sliver Bluff Missionary Baptist Church in South Carolina...

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Celebrating immunologist Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire the leading scientist for developing the covid vaccine...