Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN is the 1st Hip Hop album to win a Pulitzer Prize.
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Vanessa Williams was crowned the 1st black Miss America, 1984.
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Vanessa Williams was the 1st black to go from 1st to 12th grade in the Chappaqua School District in New York.
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LaToya Cantrell 1st black woman to be elected mayor, New Orleans, LA 2018.
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Pauli Murray 1st black woman to be vested as an Episcopal priest.
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Pauli Murray 1st black to earn a doctorate at Yale Law School.
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Viola Desmond first black woman to grace Canadien currency.
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Oprah Winfrey became the first black woman television host in 1986.
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Lincoln Motion Picture Company, 1st Black film company, 1916
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Condoleezza Rice; the 1st Black woman to be U.S. Sec. of State
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