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Celebrating the oldest church congregation in the United States Sliver Bluff Missionary Baptist Church in South Carolina...

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Celebrating immunologist Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire the leading scientist for developing the covid vaccine...

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Celebrating beautician Christina Jenkins who invented the sew-in hair weave...

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Celebrating civil rights activist, archivist, and librarian, Marion Stokes, who secretly recorded American television on VHS tapes for twenty-four hours a day, for more than thirty years to preserve history...

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Celebrating businesswoman, Rose Morgan, who opened the largest beauty salon for Black women in the world at the time and co-founded New York's only black-owned commercial bank, the Freedom National Bank...

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Celebrating Mississippi bluesman, Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup, the REAL father of Rock n' Roll...

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Celebrating author and inventor, Lloyd P. Ray, who patented his improvement to the dustpan, adding a handle, pictured here with his wife, activist, evangelist, and suffragist Emma J. Ray...

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Remembering Harry Pace, founder of the first Black owned and operated record label in the United States, 'Black Swan Records...'

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Remembering Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy the enslaved women who were experimented on without their consent or anesthesia by J. Marion Sims, the so-called father of gynecology...

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Celebrating abolitionist and businessman, William Whipper, who used his wealth to help fund the Underground Railroad...

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Celebrating the Ashmun Institute, now known as Lincoln University, who in 1854 became the first degree-granting institution in the United States for Black men....

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Celebrating mathematician and statistician Dr. David Harold Blackwell who made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and statistics...

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Celebrating Dr. Frederick Douglass Patterson, veterinarian and founder of the United Negro College Fund...

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Celebrating William 'Bill' Powell designer and owner of the first Black owned golf course in the United States...

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Celebrating architect Norma Merrick Sklarek the first Black woman to be a licensed architect in both New York and California and the first Black woman to co-own an architecture firm...

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Remembering the 33 Black girls who were jailed for 45 days in the Leesburg stockade in Americas, GA for trying to buy movie tickets at a segregated movie theater...

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Celebrating aviator, civil rights activist, engineer, and writer William J. Powell...

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Remembering  Colored School No. 4 in Chelsea, the last surviving building from New York City's racial segregation-era public school system...

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Celebrating mathematician and educator, Gloria Ford Gilmer, the first Black woman in the United States to publish a non-Ph.D.-thesis mathematics research paper and the first Black woman mathematician to have her research papers in the Library of Congress....

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Remembering Clyde Kennard who applied for admission to the all-white Mississippi Southern College, now the University of Southern Mississippi, and after the school could not find a reason to deny his admission was accused of conspiring to steal $25 worth of chicken feed and sentenced to seven years in prison on felony charges...