James Lawson born 1928 is an activist and a professor. He was a theoretician and tactician and advisor and proponent of nonviolence during the Civil Rights Movement.

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Barbara Ransby born 1957 is an author, activist, professor and historian.

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Mistah F.A.B. is a rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, community organizer, and activist. His name is a backcronym for “Money is something to always have forever after bread”. He was born Stanley Petey Cox in Oakland, California in 1982.

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In 1968, the first black Barbie, Christie, was introduced.

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The television show ‘The Proud Family’ centered around an all black family, which ran from 2001 to 2005. The show is still known as the only cartoon series on the network to have a black cast as its lead characters.

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Ruth Beckford, 1925 – 2019, toured with Katharine Dunham, founder of Oakland Dance Association.

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Richard Wright was the author of Native Son,  which was selected by the Book of the Month Club as its first book by a Black author in 1940.

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Daurene Lewis, 1943 – 2013, in 1984 was the first Black woman mayor in North America, in Canada.

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Arsenio Hall became the first black late-night talk show host with ‘The Arsenio Hall Show’ 1989 to 1994.

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Rose Fortune, 1774 – 1864, first woman police officer of any race, in Canada.

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