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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...

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Celebrating pathologist, Dr. Ruth Easterling, who worked with Dr. William Augustus Hinton to develop the Hinton test for syphilis...

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Celebrating, Sarah Rector, who at 11-years old became the richest Black child in the United States...

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Celebrating graphic artist, Jewel Ham, who designed Spotify's popular year end 'Wrapped,' story concept as an intern, but was never credited or offered a job...

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Remembering Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, founded in 1870 in Washington, D.C., the first public high school for Black children in the United States...

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Celebrating businessman, Henry G. Parks Jr., founder of the first Black owned corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange...

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Celebrating U.S. Navy veteran, Rufus J. Weaver, inventor of the stair climbing wheelchair...

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Celebrating Dr. Jane Hinton, a pioneer in the study of antibiotic resistance who co-developed the Mueller-Hinton agar, a culture medium still commonly used to test bacterial susceptibility to antibiotics...

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Celebrating Shama Yisrael, the first Black female Chess Master in the United States...

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Celebrating unsung couturier, Anne Lowe, designer for Jackie Kennedy's wedding gown....

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Remembering the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School in Philadelphia, the second hospital founded by Black people in the United States...

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Celebrating guitarist Peggy 'Lady Bo' Jones, the woman who helped shape Bo Diddley's iconic sound...

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Celebrating engineer William Hunter Dammond, the first Black graduate from the University of Pittsburg who invented one of the first automatic railroad signaling systems...

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Celebrating Harvard Medical School graduate, Dr. William Augustus Hinton, bacteriologist, pathologist and educator who developed the standard blood test for syphilis known as the Hinton test and the first Black American to publish a medical textbook...

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Celebrating Walter Francis White, the white-passing Black man who went undercover to investigate lynchings...

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Celebrating inventor Benjamin T. Montgomery who designed an improved steamboat propeller for shallow waters...

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Remembering, William 'Billy' Lee, enslaved by the first President of the United States, George Washington, and the only person he freed, out of 123 enslaved, upon his death... 

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Celebrating, Jessica Hyatt, the youngest Black woman to achieve the National Master chess title in the United States, making history at age 19 as the highest ranked Black American female chess player in history...

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Celebrating Walter Moses Burton, the first Black American elected sheriff in the United States...