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Day 23 of the 4 Tales Podcast Black History Month spotlight celebrates the amazing work of Jackie Omres. For today’s 4 Tales Podcast Black History Month spotlight, we’re honoring pioneering cartoonist Jackie Ormes — the first African American woman cartoonist to be nationally syndicated in the Black press. Born Zelda Mavin Jackson in 1911 in Pittsburgh, Ormes began her career as a journalist before making comics history in 1937 with Torchy Brown in “Dixie to Harlem” for the Pittsburgh Courier, o