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Celebrating Alena Analeigh Wicker who in 2022 at age 13 became the youngest Black person accepted to medical school in the United States and the second-youngest person to be accepted into medical school overall. She is also the youngest person ever to work as an intern at NASA...

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Celebrating businessman, Free Frank McWorter, a formerly enslaved person who purchased his own freedom and his wife's and then became first Black person in the United States to plat and register a town, New Philadelphia, IL...

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Remembering Lloyd Gaines, whose landmark Supreme Court case ended segregation in United States law schools but went missing before he could enroll...

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Celebrating HBCU Alabama A&M who welcomed a record breaking number of freshman enrollees this year...

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Celebrating businessman and confectioner, Augustus Jackson, who improved the recipe for ice cream, adding salt to make the ice melt slower, earning him the nickname, "The Father of Ice Cream..."

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Remembering the Gullah Wars, the largest and longest slave rebellion in United States history...

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Celebrating Henrietta Wood a formerly enslaved woman who was tricked back into bondage and later sued her enslaver and won...

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Celebrating Dr. Keith Black, chair of the Department of Neurosurgery and director of the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center...

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Celebrating Dr. Charles E. Anderson the first Black person in the United States to earn a PhD in meteorology...

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Celebrating Harriet E. Wilson, the first Black person to publish a novel in the United States...

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Celebrating Dr. Harriet Alleyne Rice, the first Black woman to graduate Wellesley College...

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Celebrating James Wormley, owner of the Wormley Hotel in Washington D.C, the first Black owned hotel in the United States...

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Celebrating Master Magician Benjamin 'Black Herman' Rucker...

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Remembering the thriving Black village of Willard, Virginia that was razed to build Dulles International Airport...

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Celebrating Dr. June Bacon-Bercey the first female TV meteorologist in the United States...

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Celebrating inventor Miriam Elizabeth Benjamin, the second Black woman to receive a patent in the United States and inventor of the 'gong and signal chair,' the precursor to the airplane call signal...

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Celebrating Alice Coachman the first Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal...

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Celebrating aviator and businessman Warren Hervey Wheeler who founded the first Black owned airlines...

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Celebrating cartoonist Jackie Ormes the first Black woman with a syndicated comic strip in the United States...

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Celebrating the 1953 Baton Rouge bus boycott staged by the United Defense League that laid the groundwork for Dr. Martin Luther King's non-violent protests...