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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 05 > Naomi Sims paved way for black fashion models

Naomi Sims paved way for black fashion models

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
August 5, 2009

NEW YORK " Naomi Sims, whose 1968 Ladies' Home Journal cover shot was a breakthrough for black fashion models, has died. She was 61.

Sims, said by some to be the first black supermodel, died Saturday of breast cancer in Newark, N.J., said her brother-in-law Alexander Erwiah, the president....

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