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Model Naomi Sims Succumbs To Cancer

Model Naomi Sims died on Saturday at age 61. Sims was considered the “first black supermodel.”

Here’s more via the New York Times:

Naomi Sims, whose appearance as the first black model on the cover of Ladies’ Home Journal in November 1968 was a consummate moment of the Black is Beautiful movement, and who went on to design successful collections of wigs and cosmetics for black women under her name, died Saturday in Newark. She was 61 and lived in Newark.

She died of cancer, said her son, Bob Findlay.

The Huffington Post has a photo retrospective.

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