Patrick Braxton

Patrick Braxton, first Black mayor of Newbern, Alabama.

Black Solidarity Day

Black Solidarity Day created in 1969 by Carlos E. Russell, Panamanian activist, historian, and playwright. It is the first Monday of November.

Kitty Black Perkins born 1948. Designed the first Black Barbie in the 1970s.

Mauree Turner born 1992 or 1993. first out non-binary United States legislator and the first Muslim member of the Oklahoma legislature.

Will Smith born 1968 only actor to have 8 consecutive movies gross more than 100 million.

Edmond Albius 1829 -1880 French horticulturalist and former slave who helped cultivate vanilla.

Isabel Wilkerson born in 1961 is the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism.

Kim Hamilton 1932-2013 one of the first Black actors on “Days of our Lives” and the only Black actor with a speaking role on “Leave it to Beaver”

Starr Brown, transgender woman shot to death on April 19, 2024 in Memphis, Tennessee. The 11th transgender person killed in 2024.

Woni Spotts born in 1964 is the first Black woman to visit every country and continent in the world in 2018.