Blaxploitation

Blaxploitation or blacksploitation was a genre of Black exploitation films in the 1970s.

Pigmeat Markham

Pigmeat Markham 1904 – 1981. Comic, singer, dancer, and actor.

Steven Reed 1973 or 1974 elected 2019 first Black mayor of Montgomery, Alabama since its inception in 1819.

Rudy Ray Moore 1928 – 2008 comic, producer, filmmaker, creator of Dolemite.

Sherry D. Harris born 1957. In 1991 became the first Black lesbian elected to public office in the United States, to Seattle City Council.

Jenny Mayers is the first Black woman to be invited into the Magic Circle, the official society of Magicians in the UK.

StacyAnn Chin 1972 Jamaican poet and LGBT activist.

Cayman Islands separates from Jamaica in 1962. George Town is the capital.

Trinidad and Tobago is a Caribbean island with Port of Spain as the capital.

Sonnie Hereford IV 1957 first Black to desegregate the public schools in Alabama in 1963.