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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)...

R.I.P. Dr. Gladys West

Dr. Gladys West, the mathematician who developed the Global Positioning System (GPS) [click here if you missed that], has died age 95...

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Remembering William West and William West, two identical but unrelated men who shared the same name and who are the reason fingerprints are used as the primary means of identification...

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Celebrating formerly enslaved Black American, Dr. Anna Julia Cooper, activist, author, educator, and the first Black American woman to earn a PhD in History and who is quoted on pages 26 and 27 of U.S passports...

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Celebrating songwriter, Otis Blackwell, whose music shaped Rock and Roll...

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Celebrating Black American inventor, Willis Johnson of Cincinnati, who patented the mechanical blender...

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Celebrating Reginald F. Lewis, the first Black businessman to build a billion dollar company...

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Celebrating, Stephen Bishop, lead explorer for the world’s longest cave, the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky...

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Celebrating Charles Henry Turner zoologist, entomologist, educator, and comparative psychologist who discovered that insects can hear and that honey bees see color and recognize patterns...

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Remembering that the term 'cowboy' started as a racial slur, white men were referred to as cattle men, cow hands and wranglers, and that the first 'cowboys' were Black...

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Celebrating Elbert Frank Cox, the first Black person to receive a Ph.D in mathematics...