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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...

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Celebrating, Peter Hill, the first Black master clockmaker in the United States...

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Celebrating Lillian Beckley Wheeler the first Black American woman to earn her barbers license in Colorado...

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Celebrating comedian and filmmaker, Kenan Ivory Wayans, whose comedy sketch show, "In Living Color,' is responsible for the NFL creating an official Super Bowl Halftime show...

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Remembering and honoring formerly enslaved woman, Martha Haley, who was bought and sold over five times and gave birth to 19 children...

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Remembering The Washing Society and the Washer Women's strike of 1881 that shut down the city of Atlanta until they received change...

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Celebrating Brehanna Daniels, who in 2016 became the first Black woman to be part of a NASCAR pit crew...

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Celebrating Yale class of 1964 graduate, Stan Thomas, President and CEO of the Sega Channel that allowed video games on demand, the precursor to streaming...