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I sometimes wonder how far we’ve come in race relations when we still have the mark The Firsts.  The First to graduate from, the first to participate in, the first to run for…  BUT when iI look at the people who have persevered enough to achieve these Firsts, I realize that without this tag, they would be long forgotten.  Like Jackie Ormes, the first women Black Cartoonist. I found out about Torchy Brown, the character she used to inspire a race, on NPR.  Visit the site to read or listen and learn!