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Celebrating Dr. Ernest Everett Just, pioneering biologist, academic and science writer whose primary legacy is his recognition of the fundamental role of the cell surface in the development of organisms...

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Celebrating physical anthropologist and anatomist, Dr. William Montague Cobb, the first Black American to earn a PhD in anthropology and who used skeletal biology to debunk eugenics and to advance health equity...

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Celebrating Ashley Williams the first woman in the United States to earned degrees from two different universities in the same week, a Master's in Political Management (George Washington University) and a Juris Doctorate (University of Pennsylvania)...

R.I.P. Dr. Gladys West

Dr. Gladys West, the mathematician who developed the Global Positioning System (GPS) [click here if you missed that], has died age 95...

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Remembering William West and William West, two identical but unrelated men who shared the same name and who are the reason fingerprints are used as the primary means of identification...

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Celebrating formerly enslaved Black American, Dr. Anna Julia Cooper, activist, author, educator, and the first Black American woman to earn a PhD in History and who is quoted on pages 26 and 27 of U.S passports...

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Celebrating songwriter, Otis Blackwell, whose music shaped Rock and Roll...

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Celebrating Black American inventor, Willis Johnson of Cincinnati, who patented the mechanical blender...

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Celebrating Reginald F. Lewis, the first Black businessman to build a billion dollar company...

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Celebrating, Stephen Bishop, lead explorer for the world’s longest cave, the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky...

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Celebrating Charles Henry Turner zoologist, entomologist, educator, and comparative psychologist who discovered that insects can hear and that honey bees see color and recognize patterns...

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Remembering that the term 'cowboy' started as a racial slur, white men were referred to as cattle men, cow hands and wranglers, and that the first 'cowboys' were Black...

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Celebrating Elbert Frank Cox, the first Black person to receive a Ph.D in mathematics...

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Celebrating engineer, Albert C. Richardson, inventor of the casket lowering device...

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Celebrating Dr. Frank Crossley, the first Black American to receive a PhD in metallurgical engineering,  and a pioneer in titanium. Dr. Crossley's work significantly advanced titanium metallurgy — the process of extracting and refining titanium to create stronger, more durable materials to use in the space and medical industries...

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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...