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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...

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Celebrating engineer, Albert C. Richardson, inventor of the casket lowering device...

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Celebrating Dr. Frank Crossley, the first Black American to receive a PhD in metallurgical engineering,  and a pioneer in titanium. Dr. Crossley's work significantly advanced titanium metallurgy — the process of extracting and refining titanium to create stronger, more durable materials to use in the space and medical industries...

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Celebrating chemist, Lloyd Augustus Hall, a pioneer in food preservation. By the end of his career, Hall had amassed over 100 patents in the United States, Britain, and Canada. Many of Hall's food preservation methods are still in use today...

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Celebrating Lt. Governor Oscar J. Dunn, the first Black Lt. Governor in the United States...

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Celebrating Fred Luster Sr., founder of Luster Products Inc...

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Celebrating veterinary microbiologist, Dr. Jessie Isabelle Price, who developed vaccines for the most common life-threatening disease in duck farming and other avian diseases...

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Celebrating Dr. Oliver Hooker, survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre and the first Black American woman to enlist in the Coast Guard...

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Celebrating Alexander P. Ashbourne, who received a patent for his biscuit cutter and the process for refining coconut oil...

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Celebrating Dr. Autherine Lucy Foster, the first Black student admitted to the University of Alabama. She was expelled three days later for 'her own safety...'

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Celebrating Anderson Bonner a formerly enslaved businessman who amassed more than 2000 acres of land in Dallas, TX after his emancipation...

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Celebrating Black women's suffragist, Mary Eliza Church Terrell, first president of the National Association of Colored Women and a founding member of the NAACP...

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Celebrating Dr. Louis T. Wright, surgeon and civil rights activist and the first Black doctor on the surgical staff of a non-segregated hospital in New York City...

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Celebrating Dr. Alexander Augusta, the first Black medical doctor in the Union Army and the first Black professor of medicine in the United States...

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Celebrating nurse and midwife, Maude E. Callen, who opened a hospital in her home and delivered more than 800 babies in her rural community...

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Celebrating educator, Harriett Elizabeth Brown, who after realizing white teachers were paid twice as much as Black teachers with same education and experience sued to county for equal pay and won...