Emman Twe

Emman “Small Eyez” Twe uses technology to make music accessible despite being born with a left arm that is not fully developed.

Mamie Johnson

Mamie Johnson 1935-2017. First female pitcher to play in the Negro Leagues.

Faith Evans born 1973, first woman artist to sign with “Bad Boy Records” in 1994.

Rumun Ndur born 1975. First Nigerian born player to play in the National Hockey League.

“Five-Percent Nation” Black nationalist movement founded in 1964 by “Allah the Father”. Aka “Nations of Gods and Earth” or the “Five Percenters”

Allah the Father 1928 – 1969. Born Clarence Edward Smith, founded “Five-Percent Nation”

Natu Camara born in the Ivory Coast, raised in Guinea. Formed West Africa’s first ever female R & B/hip-hop band, the “Ideal Black Girls”

Abraham Lincoln Woods Jr. 1928 – 2008. Helped coordinate the 1963 March on Washington.

John Mbiti 1931-2019. The “father of African theology”.

Natalie Braswell in 2021 became Connecticut’s first Black comptroller.