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Celebrating prolific inventor and physician Dr. Thomas Elkins...

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Celebrating inventor, Henry Brown, creator of the first 'strongbox', a metal container for storing money, valuables and important papers that could be locked with a key...

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Celebrating Frederick McKinley Jones the inventor of mobile refrigeration technology used to transport food and blood in World War II...

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Celebrating James West, co-inventor of the technology used in 90% of microphones today...

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Celebrating cowboy, Steve Henson, inventor of Ranch Dressing...

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Celebrating civil rights attorney, Sadie T. Alexander, the first Black woman in the United States to earn a PhD in Economics...

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Celebrating 17-year-old high school athlete and musician, Sahli Negassi, who scored a perfect 1600 on the SATs this year, a rare achievement that places him among less than 1% of test-takers nationwide...

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Celebrating Dr. Daniel Hale Williams who performed the first successful open heart surgery and the founder of Provident Hospital in Chicago, the first non segregated hospital in the United States...

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Celebrating Dr. Alexa Canady the first Black female neurosurgeon in the United States...

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Celebrating Mary McLeod Bethune educator, humanitarian, philanthropist, womanist, and civil rights activist...

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Celebrating Dr. Barbara Ross, the first Black woman appointed dean of a medical school in the United States and sister of Motown legend Diana Ross...

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Celebrating Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson who, as high school seniors at St. Mary's Academy in New Orleans, solved and showed proof of the Pythagorean Theorem ( a² + b² = c²)...

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Celebrating engineer Moses West who invented the Atmospheric Water Generator, that pulls water from the air...

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Celebrating the Fisk University Jubilee Singers who saved the school with their choir and inspired Queen Victoria the nickname Nashville 'Music City...'

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Celebrating Dr. Eliza Grier, the first Black woman licensed to practice medicine in Georgia...

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Celebrating investigative journalist, women's suffragist and anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells...

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Celebrating attorney Elmer W. Henderson, whose landmark civil rights lawsuit became the basis for The Supreme Court's decision to outlaw segregation on railroad dining cars...

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Celebrating the Deacons of Defense and Justice, an armed community action group created to combat the Klan and corrupt cops in Jonesboro, Louisiana two years before the Black Panther Party was founded...

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Celebrating surgeon Dr. Charles Drew who pioneered blood preservation techniques and established the first large-scale blood banks...

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Celebrating engineer Lonnie Thomas inventor of the wildly popular Super Soaker water gun ...