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Celebrating astronaut and physicist Ronald McNair, the second Black astronaut to travel in space, who died along with the entire crew during the launch of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986...

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Celebrating Emeline King, the first Black woman designer for Ford Motor Company...

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Celebrating inventor George T. Sampson, who patented the design for the first automatic clothes dryer...

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Celebrating businesswoman Lovie Yancy founder of Fat Burger...

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Celebrating aerospace engineer Guion 'Guy' Bluford the first Black man to travel to outer space...

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Celebrating the 1811 German Coast uprising, the largest slave revolt recorded in the United States...

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Celebrating Grace Wisher, the 13-year-old Black girl who helped sew the first American flag...

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Celebrating Christopher J. Perry Sr., founder of the Philadelphia Tribune, the oldest continuously run Black newspaper in the United States...

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Celebrating Mary Ann Shadd Cary, activist, writer, teacher, and lawyer who became the first Black woman newspaper editor in North American history when she published Canada's first antislavery newspaper, The Provincial Freeman...

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Celebrating businessman, Abraham Lincoln Lewis, Florida's first Black millionaire and founder of The Afro-American Life Insurance Company. Lewis also founded American Beach on Amelia Island, north of Jacksonville, for Black beach goers who were not allowed on public beaches due to Jim Crow laws...

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Celebrating nuclear chemist Clarice Phelps who discovered a new element in the periodic table...

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Celebrating rocker, Tina Bell, lead singer for the Seattle based band 'Bam Bam' and the godmother of grunge music...

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Celebrating Dr. Russell Joseph Ledet who went from being a security guard to a doctor after refusing to take no for an answer...

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Celebrating abolitionist and author Harriet Jacobs who hatched a daring plan to gain freedom for herself and her children...

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Celebrating Mound Bayou, MS one of the first independent Black towns established in the United States and still in existence today...

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Celebrating The Greenville Eight, who staged a 'read in' at the Greenville Public Library, triggering the 1960 court case that desegregated the public library system in South Carolina...

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Celebrating inventor William D. Davis who patented an improvement to the riding saddle in 1896...

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Celebrating Captain Theresa Clairborne the first Black woman pilot in the Air Force...

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Celebrating inventor William H. Richardson, who patented an improvement on the baby carriage...

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Celebrating Althea Gibson the first Black tennis player to win at Wimbledon and the first black woman to join the LPGA [Ladies Professional Golf Association] Tour..