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Xavier University Makes History as First HBCU to Launch Co-Ed Varsity Rowing Program

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Kevin Hart Announces Release of ‘Lil Kev,’ the First Original Animated Series on BET+

Xavier University Makes History as First HBCU to Launch Co-Ed Varsity Rowing Program

Joseph Deng Makes History as First Player From South Sudan to Sign a Professional MLB Contract

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Marcus Freeman Makes History as First Black Coach to Reach College Football Finals

Jewel Rodgers Makes History as First African American Poet Laureate in Nebraska

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Clark Atlanta Student Jayden Williams Becomes Youngest Person to Run for Mayor in Stockbridge, Georgia

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Meet the Founder of the Only Black-Owned Dog Food Company in the U.S.

Meet Charles W. Anderson, Kentucky’s First Black Legislator

Chantelle Porter Is Now the First Black Woman Judge in Illinois’ 18th Judicial Circuit

CEO Sara Hood Is Now The First Black Woman To Own A Sports Team In The Metaverse

Meet Max Robinson, The First Black News Anchor

Harvard Names First Black President In 386-Year-History

Harvard Names First Black President In 386-Year-History

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Meet The Golden Fourteen, The First Black Women To Serve In The U.S. Navy

Here’s Everything You Never Learned About Larry Doby, The First Black Baseball Player In The American League

5 Useful Things We Could All Learn From America’s First Black Billionaire, Reginald Lewis

Dr. George Franklin Grant: The Inventor, Dentist, & Harvard’s First Black Professor

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