Rihanna
Rihanna, 1st black woman on cover of British Vogue’s September issue in 102 years of existence.
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Anita Florence Hemmings
Anita Florence Hemmings in 1897 first black woman to graduate from Vassar.
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Serena Williams, first black person to win a Grand Slam in tennis.
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Richard Allen founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1816, forty-nine years before the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery.
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Mordecai Johnson 1st black president of Howard University.
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Carl Stokes 1st black anchorman in NYC, 1972.
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Essynce Moore is the 1st black teen to write books that are mandatory readings for school districts.
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Ken Gibson, 1970, first elected black mayor of a major city in the northeast U.S.
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George Gates 1st black postal worker.
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London Breed SF 1st black woman mayor-elect 2018.
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