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Celebrating, Lucius D. Amerson, who in 1966 was elected as the Black Sheriff in the South since Reconstruction...

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Celebrating attorney, Buck Colbert 'BC' Franklin, who successfully defended survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre...

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Celebrating, Dr. Inez Phillips Durham, and her daughter, Dr. Jennifer Durham, who made history as the first parent-child duo to earn doctorate degrees from Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology...

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Celebrating, James Weldon Johnson, author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist who composed the Black national anthem 'Life Every Voice and Sing...'

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Celebrating, Andrew Jackson Beard, who invented the 'Jenny Cupler' an automatic railroad car coupler that dramatically reduced serious injuries to railroad workers...

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Celebrating Soul singer, Roy Hamilton, the man whose sound was copied by Elvis Presley....

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Celebrating 'The Jim Dandy Ski Club' founded in 1958 in Detroit, MI., the oldest Black ski club in the world...

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Celebrating abolitionist and women's suffragist, Harriett Forten Purvis...

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Celebrating fashion designer, Angela Dean, the uncredited designer of Madonna's iconic cone bra worn for the 1990 Blonde Ambition Tour...

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Celebrating, Dr. Edith Irby Jones, the first woman to serve as president of the National Medical Association, a group founded for Black doctors who were not allowed to join the American Medical Association...

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Celebrating Kyra Harris Bolden the youngest and first Black woman to serve on the Michigan Supreme Court....

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Celebrating Valentine S. Alia, Lawrence B. Brown, Ivy Mannoh, Zachary Obinna Enumah, and Ifeoluwa “Ife” Shoyombo, who have made history at Johns Hopkins Hospital as the first all-Black team of residents to lead the trauma center...

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Celebrating harpist, Dorothy Ashby, who popularized the harp in Jazz music...

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Celebrating Ledger Smith who roller skated 685 miles from Chicago to Washington D.C., to attend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have A Dream' speech....

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Remembering the 1942 White City skating rink protest in Chicago that kicked off a wave of Black civil rights skate activism, long before the 1960's civil rights movement...

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Celebrating athlete, civil rights activist, and social worker, Eroseanna Robinson, who famously refused to stand for the National Anthem at the 1959 Pan American Games...

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Remembering, Mill Creek Valley, a once-thriving Black neighborhood in St. Louis, MS that was razed by urban renewal to build U.S. Highway 40...

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Celebrating, Ona Judge, who was enslaved by George and Martha Washington and who after her escape was one of the only formerly enslaved people to speak openly about her captivity...

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Celebrating, Wendy Hilliard, the first Black rhythmic gymnast to represent the United States globally...

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Celebrating, Charlemae Hill Rollins, children’s book author, literacy advocate and the first Black president of the American Library Association...