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Breakthrough Black Model Naomi Sims Dead at 61

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 3, 2009 4:10 PM CDT

(Newser) – Naomi Sims, the first black model to grace the cover of Ladies Home Journal—and arguably the first black supermodel—has died at 61, the New York Times reports. Her family says the cause was cancer. Sims burst onto the scene in the late 1960s,...   Read full story »

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