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Celebrating, Dr. Ashton Sellers, who at 32 years old became the youngest woman to own an animal hospital in Kansas City and the first Black woman to own an animal hospital in Kansas City...

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Celebrating professional golfer, Dr. Renee Powell, the second Black American woman to play on the LPGA [Ladies Professional Golf Association] Tour, Aletha Gibson was the first [click here if you missed that]...

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Celebrating Rear Adm. Lillian E. Fishburne, the Navy's first black female rear admiral....

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Celebrating engineer and physicist, Willie Hobbs Moore, the first American Black woman to earn a PhD in physics...

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Celebrating electrical engineer, Kimberly Bryant, who founded 'Black Girls Code' after noticing a lack of Black woman in STEM [Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics]...

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Celebrating, Lafayette Alonzo Tillman, the first Black police officer in Kansas City...

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Celebrating the enslaved workers who built the White House and the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C....

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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...