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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...

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Celebrating the national economic empowerment group the 'Housewives League,' founded in Detroit, MI by Fannie B. Peck...

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Celebrating Shirley Chisholm, the first Black American woman elected to Congress...

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Celebrating educator and historian, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, known as the 'Father of Black History' after launching Negro History Week in February 1926, that later became Black History Month...

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Celebrating civil rights activist, Beatrice Morrow Cannady, the first Black woman to graduate from Northwestern College of Law and Oregon’s first Black woman to practice law...

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Celebrating attorney and journalist, Robert Sengstacke Abbott, founder of the Chicago Defender newspaper and the Bud Billiken Parade...

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Celebrating Judge Jasmine Twitty, the youngest municipal court judge appointed in the United States...

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Celebrating civil rights leader, Diane Nash, a co- founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee who lead the first successful sit-it to integrate lunch counters in Nashville, helped organize the Freedom Rides to end segregation in interstate travel, and worked to help pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965...

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Celebrating, Dr. Alfred Oscar Coffin, the first American Black man to obtain a PhD in biology...

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Celebrating, McKinley Thompson Jr., the first Black American automobile designer in the United States...

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Celebrating Freddye Scarborough Henderson, the first Black American woman to open an accredited travel agency in the United States...

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Celebrating playwright, Lorraine Hansberry, the first Black American woman to have her play produced on Broadway...

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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)...