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Celebrating fashion designer Zelda Wynn Valdes, the first Black woman to open a dress shop on Broadway in New York and the creator of the iconic Playboy Bunny uniform...

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Celebrating Mary E. Bowser an educated free Black woman who returned to the South and posed as an enslaved person to spy for the Union Army and helped end the civil war...

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Celebrating Kamora Freeland the youngest female pilot in the United States...

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Celebrating director Thomas Carter who changed the face of TV after shooting the pilot for Miami Vice...

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Celebrating Mary Fields, the first Black woman to work for the U.S. Post Office...

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Celebrating Dr. Gladys West the mathematician who helped develop the Global Positioning System (GPS) and who was inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2018...

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Celebrating pilots who broke the color barrier...

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Celebrating Cornelius Coffey, first Black man in the United States to hold a pilot & aircraft mechanic license and the founder of the first Black -owned & certified flight school...

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Celebrating Willa Brown, first Black woman in the United States to earn both a pilot's license (1938) and a commercial license (1939)...

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Celebrating prolific inventor Richard Bowie Spikes who invented the automatic gear shift for cars and turn signals...

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Celebrating George Crum inventor of potato chips...

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Celebrating Dr. Patricia Cowins the first American woman to receive scientist astronaut training...

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Celebrating inventor Valerie L. Thomas, a scientist and researcher for NASA who holds the patent for the illusion transmitter that produced 3D images...

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Celebrating physicist, Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, the first Black woman to earn a PhD from MIT and the inventor of touch-tone dialing, caller ID, and call waiting...

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Celebrating engineer Dr. Marian Croak, who earned a PhD in quantitative analysis, is the holder of over 200 patents and the inventor of the Voice over Internet Protocol [VoIP] that allows you to make phone calls over the Internet...

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Celebrating the late engineer, Gerald Lawson, inventor of the first video game cartridge...

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Celebrating unsung hero, inventor Mary Kenner, who secured five patents in her lifetime, the most of any Black woman at the time...

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Celebrating the late Dr. Patricia Bath, the first Black woman to receive a medical patent and the inventor of laser cataract surgery...

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Celebrating engineer and inventor Lanney Smoot...

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Celebrating physicist, Dr. Hadiyah Green, who developed a method to eliminate cancer cells, while avoiding healthy cells, using nanoparticles....