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September 2, 2019 at 11:34 am

Meet the woman behind new distillery honouring black slave who taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey

Theodora Aidoo

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  Get to know Valerie Daniels-Carter, the sole Black female owner of the Milwaukee Bucks

  Abu Mubarik
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  Taekwondo star says she is being barred from Tokyo Olympics because she represents Haiti

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  The Kenyan lawmaker with all-female armed bodyguards wearing hijabs

  Francis Akhalbey
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  A Black woman is leading a NASA center for the first time ever

  Abu Mubarik
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  Meet the first openly transgender woman to compete in Miss South Africa

  Francis Akhalbey
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  How this immigrant farmer from Jamaica is reshaping U.S. farming with aid from crowdfunding

  Abu Mubarik

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  Remembering Sislin Fay Allen, Britain’s first Black policewoman who died in her native Jamaica

  Francis Akhalbey
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  Remembering Lilian Blankson, former BET Director who helped elevate African artists to the global stage

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  Meet Sandra Lindsay, the Jamaican-born nurse who got the first Covid-19 shot in U.S.

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  Nigeria’s Uruemu Adejinmi becomes Ireland’s first African woman mayor. This is her story

  Mildred Europa Taylor
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  Simone Biles’ preparation for Olympics is awesome to behold

  Nii Ntreh
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  Get to know Dr. Mautra S. Jones, the Oklahoma woman named national ‘Mother of the Year’

  Ama Nunoo

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