Daily Almanac for Thursday, June 3, 2021

On this date in 2004, Phylicia Rashad became the first African American Actress to win a Tony Award for the best leading Actress in a Play. Here she is in 1998. Photo by www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, CC BY-SA 2.0, https commons.wikimedia.org

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