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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...

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Celebrating architect, Robert Kennard, founder of the oldest continuously-operating African American architecture firm in L.A...

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Celebrating boxer, businessman, and inventor, Jack Johnson, the first Black heavy weight champion boxer in the United States...

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Celebrating Barbara Hillary, the first Black woman to travel to the North Pole and South Pole ...

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Celebrating Mario Hoover the first student from Chicago’s Providence-St. Mel School to receive a perfect score on the ACT...

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Celebrating, Daniel Webster '80 John' Wallace, a Texas cattle rancher who was born enslaved but became one of the most successful and respected ranchers in the West, owning more than 8,000 acres of land and amassing a personal fortune of more than a million dollars at the time of his death, and whose descendants still run his ranch today...

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Remembering the first Park Rangers in the United States, comprised of the all Black army regiment of the Buffalo Soldiers, after the Civil War...

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Celebrating Nicodemus, Kansas, the oldest remaining all-Black settlement west of the Mississippi River...