William Venoid Banks
William Venoid Banks (1903-1985) founded WGPR-TV (Where God’s Presence Radiates) the first Black-owned television station in 1975.
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Riquna Williams
Riquna Williams born May 28, 1990 is a basketball player who came out as lesbian. She plays in the WNBA for the Los Angeles Sparks.
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Martina Arroyo 1937 Black Puerto Rican soprano performed at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Lincoln Motion Picture Company became the first Black film company in 1916.
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Black Swan Records was the first Black-owned recording company that sold popular music to black audiences the first company to record black classical musicians from 1921 and 1923.
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The African Company was the first known Black theatre troupe acquired by William Henry Brown in 1821.
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Jesse B Blayton (1879-1977) founded WERD, the first Black-owned radio station in 1949.
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Janet Collins 1917-2003 first Black artist to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in 1951.
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Association of Black Anthropologists founded in 1975.
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Nigerian-born Mike Adenuga (April 29, 1953) is the the world’s second richest black person as of 2019. His Conoil Producing Company was one of the first indigenous Nigerian companies to be granted an oil exploration license in the early 90s.
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