Yvonne Atwell born in 1943 was the first Black woman elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in Canada.

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Martin Puryear is the first black visual artist to receive a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, otherwise known as the “genius grant” in 1989.

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RuPaul was the first black spokesperson for MAC Cosmetics’ Viva Glam campaign, which was a created for HIV/AIDS awareness in 1994.

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Raye Boyce, known as It’s My Raye Raye on YouTube, became the first black YouTuber to reach 1 million followers in 2015.

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Shaun Ross became the first professional Black model with albinism after signing to AMCK Models London in 2008.

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Lowery Stokes Sims joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and became the first black curator at the museum in 1972.

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Bernard Tyson is the CEO of Kaiser Permanente, the first Black person to hold that position in 2012.

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Ophelia DeVore (1922 – 2014) was the first Black model in the United States who helped establish the Grace Del Marco Agency, one of the first modeling agencies in America in 1946.

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Sir W. Arthur Lewis (1915-1991) is the first and only black person to win a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1979.

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