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Bianca Smith will make history as the FIRST Black woman to coach professional baseball.

Boston Red Sox announced (1/4/21) she would be joining their minor league team when spring training begins next month.

“The idea that I'm a trailblazer is certainly not one I thought of,” she says. “But I mean, if that means more girls, more women are more interested in this game and might want to consider coaching as an opportunity, then even better for it.”

For Smith, it’s about getting the word out to girls and women that they, too, have a chance to play baseball. (www.wbur.org)

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Meet FIRST L.A.D.Y. Sydney Barber

A Black woman will lead the US Naval Academy's student body for the first time in its history.

Midshipman 1st Class Sydney Barber, a mechanical engineering major from Lake Forest, Illinois, has been named brigade commander for the spring semester -- the academy's highest student leadership position, the Naval Academy said in a news release Monday.

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