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Breakthrough Black Model Naomi Sims Dead at 61
Breakthrough Black Model Naomi Sims Dead at 61
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Breakthrough Black Model Naomi Sims Dead at 61

(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, but chose in the ‘...

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