NEW YORK (AFP) –
Naomi Sims, a black model who opened the white-dominated fashion industry to African Americans in the 1960s, has died, reports said Tuesday. She was 61.
Sims, sometimes dubbed the first black supermodel, died of cancer Saturday in Newark, New Jersey, the New York Times and TheFashionInsider.com reported.
Born in racially segregated Mississippi in 1948, Sims made history in August 1967 as the first black model on the
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