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Celebrating radio DJ Mary Dee Dudley the first Black female radio DJ in the United States and a pioneer in the format of combining coverage of community affairs with news and music...

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Remembering Seneca Village, the Black community in New York confiscated by eminent domain and razed to create Central Park...

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Celebrating Azie Taylor Morton the only Black person to serve as U.S. Treasurer...

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Celebrating Dr. Samuel Kountz Jr, the first Black student at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in 1954. Dr. Kountz performed the first successful kidney transplant between humans who were not identical twins and helped develop a machine used to preserve kidneys between transplants....

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Celebrating abolitionist Moses Dickson who formed a secret army to defeat slavery...

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Remembering The Negro Motorist Green Book, created by Victor Hugo Green in 1936, as an annual safety guide for Black travelers in the United States during the Jim Crow era...

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Celebrating The Great Dismal Swamp on the borders of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina where self-emancipated Black people, called Maroons from the Spanish word cimarrón meaning "fugitive" or "wild", lived freely for over 200 years before the end of slavery...

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Celebrating WGPR in Detroit, MI, the first Black owned and operated TV station in the United States...

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Celebrating Claudette Colvin who was arrested for refusing to sit in the Colored section of the bus in Montgomery, AL nine months before the arrest of Rosa Parks....

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Celebrating inventor Charles Frederick Page who was granted a patent for his airship 8 months before the Wright Brothers, but whose invention was stolen while being shipped to the 1904 St. Louis World Fair...

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Celebrating Dorothy Counts the first Black student to integrate Harry Harding High School in Charlotte, NC September 4, 1957...

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Celebrating Gabriel Prosser a literate enslaved blacksmith who was killed after his plans for a massive slave rebellion in 1800 were revealed by house slaves...

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Celebrating Lear Green who escaped slavery on an 18 hour journey in a steamer trunk...

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Celebrating abolitionist and wealthy businessman James Forten...

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Remembering the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first Black labor union in the United States...

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Celebrating engineer Elbert R. Robinson who received a patent for the electric highway trolley. His invention used a new design to secure wheels to the wire when the trolley rounded curves or went down hills...

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Celebrating history teacher and political activist Clara Luper...

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Celebrating anarchist and social activist Lucy Parsons...

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Celebrating Alena Analeigh Wicker who in 2022 at age 13 became the youngest Black person accepted to medical school in the United States and the second-youngest person to be accepted into medical school overall. She is also the youngest person ever to work as an intern at NASA...

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Celebrating businessman, Free Frank McWorter, a formerly enslaved person who purchased his own freedom and his wife's and then became first Black person in the United States to plat and register a town, New Philadelphia, IL...