NEW YORK — Naomi Sims, the legendary Sixties model who broke racial barriers, died in Newark on Saturday. She was 61. The cause of death was cancer, according to Alexander Erwiah, the model’s ...

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NEW YORK (AP) -- 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 ...