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Celebrating chemist, Lloyd Augustus Hall, a pioneer in food preservation. By the end of his career, Hall had amassed over 100 patents in the United States, Britain, and Canada. Many of Hall's food preservation methods are still in use today...

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Celebrating Lt. Governor Oscar J. Dunn, the first Black Lt. Governor in the United States...

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Celebrating Fred Luster Sr., founder of Luster Products Inc...

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Celebrating veterinary microbiologist, Dr. Jessie Isabelle Price, who developed vaccines for the most common life-threatening disease in duck farming and other avian diseases...

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Celebrating Dr. Oliver Hooker, survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre and the first Black American woman to enlist in the Coast Guard...

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Celebrating Alexander P. Ashbourne, who received a patent for his biscuit cutter and the process for refining coconut oil...

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Celebrating Dr. Autherine Lucy Foster, the first Black student admitted to the University of Alabama. She was expelled three days later for 'her own safety...'

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Celebrating Anderson Bonner a formerly enslaved businessman who amassed more than 2000 acres of land in Dallas, TX after his emancipation...

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Celebrating Black women's suffragist, Mary Eliza Church Terrell, first president of the National Association of Colored Women and a founding member of the NAACP...

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Celebrating Dr. Louis T. Wright, surgeon and civil rights activist and the first Black doctor on the surgical staff of a non-segregated hospital in New York City...

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Celebrating Dr. Alexander Augusta, the first Black medical doctor in the Union Army and the first Black professor of medicine in the United States...

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Celebrating nurse and midwife, Maude E. Callen, who opened a hospital in her home and delivered more than 800 babies in her rural community...

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Celebrating educator, Harriett Elizabeth Brown, who after realizing white teachers were paid twice as much as Black teachers with same education and experience sued to county for equal pay and won...

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Remembering enslaved explorer, York, who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expedition across the Pacific Northwest after the Louisiana Purchase...

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Celebrating cardiologist, Vivien T. Thomas, who without a medical degree developed surgical tools, trained surgeons and pioneered the first procedure to treat 'Blue Baby Syndrome...'

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Remembering the Great Christmas Day Escape of 1854 when Harriet Tubman liberated her two brothers from slavery...

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Celebrating, Laila Edwards, who in 2024 became the first Black woman to play on the National Hockey Team...

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Celebrating Detroit beautician Jessie T. Pope who invented and patented the thermostatically controlled curling iron in in 1946...

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...