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Celebrating teen conservationist, Demi Johnson, who is working to restore oyster habitats in Mississippi...

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Celebrating 8-year-old Detroit student, Myles Dantzler, who has been inducted into MENSA the world's largest and oldest high-IQ organization...

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Celebrating chef, Dora Charles, who gave all her family recipes to celebrity chef, Paula Deen, under the false pretense they were partners...

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Celebrating inventor, John Lee Love, who patented the portable pencil sharpener...

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Celebrating actress Hattie McDaniels, the first Black actress to win an Academy Award...

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Celebrating the late civil rights leader, Medgar Evers,...

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Celebrating the first Black super model, Donyale Luna...

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Celebrating, Sara Spencer Washington, entrepreneur, philanthropist and founder of Apex News and Beauty...

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Celebrating formerly enslaved woman, Druella Jones or Aunt Jonas, who attempted to burn down her former slave owner's house during the Civil War...

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Celebrating businessman, Jesse Binga, who founded the first Black owned and operated bank in Chicago...

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Celebrating real estate mogul, Philip A. Payton Jr., the 'Father of Harlem...'

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Celebrating, Marjorie Stewart Joyner, inventor of the permanent wave machine....

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Celebrating Madeline Turner inventor of the fruit press, the precursor to the juicer...

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Remembering the Tignon Law, enacted by Louisiana Governor Esteban Miró in 1786 , that forced free women of color to cover their hair with a tignon (headwrap) to distinguish them from white women and suppress their rising social status and beauty...

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Celebrating inventor, Joseph Lee, pioneer in the automation of bread and breadcrumb making...

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Celebrating the Black Panther Party, a self-defense and black power political action group founded by college students Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seal in October 1966 in Oakland, California....

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Celebrating, Sylvia Dubois, an enslaved woman who took her freedom by force...

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Celebrating, Floyd McKissick Sr., the first Black American student at the University of North Carolina School of Law, who later opened his own law firm in 1955 that focused on civil rights issues....

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Remembering Fort Mose, the first legally sanctioned free Black town in what would become the United States...

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Celebrating the historically Black neighborhood, Five Points, in Denver, Co., once known as the Harlem of the west...