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Renauld White, debonair model who broke barriers, dies at 80
That was a milestone: Though the first Black model to appear on GQ’s cover, in 1977, was the Swiss-born Urs Althaus, Mr. White was the first American. (Showman Sammy Davis Jr. was the first Black man to appear on a GQ cover, which he did in September 1967 …