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The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra is slated to make history as the first all-Black classical symphony orchestra to perform at Carnegie Hall.

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A Washington park has been renamed to honor Rosa Franklin; the state’s first Black woman senator.

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William Tate IV has been appointed to become Louisiana State University’s president; making him the first Black person to assume the position in the school’s 161-year history.

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For the first time in its 142-year history, The Art Institute of Chicago has a Black woman board chair.

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For the first time in its 182-year history, Duke University has named a campus building after a trailblazing Black woman.

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Aviator Madeline Swegle made history as the U.S. Navy’s first Black woman tactical air pilot.

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A. Benjamin Spencer is the first Black dean in William & Mary Law School’s 241-year history.

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Amber Johnson recently became the first Black woman to earn a doctorate in computer science at Purdue University.

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Maryland native Kahlil Greene has made history by becoming Yale University’s first Black student president.

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Janina Simmons is the first Black woman to graduate from U.S. Army Ranger School.

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20-year-old Britney Deas has made history by becoming the University of South Florida’s first Black woman student body president.

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Georgia native Lt. Andrea Lewis has made history by becoming the first Black woman pilot in the Georgia National Air Guard.