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One World, One Web, One Love

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Remembering Molly

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Charles V. Bush agitated for equity in the officer corps

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Madame Jones was the Beyoncé of her time

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Two Black women received patents… in 1884 and 1885!

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Jerry Varnado and James Garrett started the first Black Student Union

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Captain Francisco Menéndez helped found the first free Black settlement in the U.S.

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Jane Bolin didn’t let anyone tell her what she couldn’t do

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Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler prioritized the most vulnerable

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Orrin C. Evans showed us Black people could be (super)heroes too

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Lucy Hicks Anderson was an early Black trans pioneer

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Maya Angelou persevered, but many don’t

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Jerry Lawson made home video game systems possible

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Angie Turner King invested her energy in others

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Margaret Collins used biology to push for equality

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Katherine Johnson took us to the moon (and back)

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Without Frederick McKinley Jones, where would your food be?

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Amelia Boynton Robinson agitated for the vote

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Mark Dean’s work on the PC made personal computing possible

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Jack Johnson “trolled” for his shot at equality and inspired future generations of Black athlete activists

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Mae Jemison never gave up on her dream

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Baratunde Thurston tackles tough topics with “deep humor”

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Ida B. Wells shone light in the darkness

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LeBron James converts power into promise

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W. Kamau Bell is all about dialogue

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Pauli Murray dismantled systems of oppression

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Lizzo is all about self-acceptance and empowerment

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Nina Simone “said it” when others couldn’t

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Bayard Rustin advocated for marginalized people everywhere

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Anna Arnold Hedgeman was the glue for the civil rights movement

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Chuck D challenges me to confront myself

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He invented the search engine, but you don’t know his name

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Kimberly Bryant is tackling tech monocultures head-on

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Thomas Jennings put his money on the line

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Aretha commanded respect

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Harriet really was a spy

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LeVar Burton changes lives, one book at a time

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“God” was a complicated man who did some revolutionary things

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Shirley Chisholm was unbought and unbossed

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I’ve learned so much from Chenjerai Kumanyika

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Why Oscar’s middle name is “Ellison”

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