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Celebrating blues guitarist and vocalist Memphis Minnie...

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Celebrating Minnie Cox, the first Black female Postmaster in the United States and founder of the Delta Penny Savings Bank and Mississippi Life Insurance Company...

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Celebrating educator Septima Poinsette Clark the Mother of the Civil Rights movement...

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Celebrating attorney Henry E. Baker the first person to compile a list of Black patent holders...

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Celebrating Lt. Colonel Allen Allensworth founder of the first Black town in California...

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Remembering Henrietta Lacks, whose unique immortal cells were harvested without her knowledge, consent, or compensation and used for countless medical breakthroughs, from the polio vaccine to cancer research and IVF and are still being used today...

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Celebrating Georgia Gilmore who used her culinary skills and Club Nowhere to help fund the Montgomery, AL civil rights movement...

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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...