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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...

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Celebrating formerly enslaved Black American, James Armistead Lafayette, who served in the Continental army as a spy and helped end the American revolutionary war...

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Celebrating, Lucius D. Amerson, who in 1966 was elected as the Black Sheriff in the South since Reconstruction...

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Celebrating attorney, Buck Colbert 'BC' Franklin, who successfully defended survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre...

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Celebrating, Dr. Inez Phillips Durham, and her daughter, Dr. Jennifer Durham, who made history as the first parent-child duo to earn doctorate degrees from Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology...

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Celebrating, James Weldon Johnson, author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist who composed the Black national anthem 'Life Every Voice and Sing...'

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Celebrating, Andrew Jackson Beard, who invented the 'Jenny Cupler' an automatic railroad car coupler that dramatically reduced serious injuries to railroad workers...

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Celebrating Soul singer, Roy Hamilton, the man whose sound was copied by Elvis Presley....

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Celebrating 'The Jim Dandy Ski Club' founded in 1958 in Detroit, MI., the oldest Black ski club in the world...

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Celebrating abolitionist and women's suffragist, Harriett Forten Purvis...

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Celebrating fashion designer, Angela Dean, the uncredited designer of Madonna's iconic cone bra worn for the 1990 Blonde Ambition Tour...

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Celebrating, Dr. Edith Irby Jones, the first woman to serve as president of the National Medical Association, a group founded for Black doctors who were not allowed to join the American Medical Association...