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Lila MacLellan

Your next company party should be a private screening of ‘OnBoard’

Patricia Roberts Harris sits before a microphone in 1972. (Credit: Getty Images/Bettmann Archive)

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Patricia Roberts Harris was a civil rights leader, a law school dean, and an all-around trailblazer. She was the first Black woman to become a U.S. cabinet secretary in the late 1970s, and the first to be named U.S. ambassador when she was appointed to Luxembourg in 1965. 

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