Raye Boyce
Raye Boyce, known as It’s My Raye Raye on YouTube, became the first black YouTuber to reach 1 million followers in 2015.
Read more "Raye Boyce"black history everyday 24/7/365
Shaun Ross
Shaun Ross became the first professional Black model with albinism after signing to AMCK Models London in 2008.
Read more "Shaun Ross"Lowery Stokes Sims
Lowery Stokes Sims joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and became the first black curator at the museum in 1972.
Read more "Lowery Stokes Sims"Bernard Tyson
Bernard Tyson is the CEO of Kaiser Permanente, the first Black person to hold that position in 2012.
Read more "Bernard Tyson"Ophelia DeVore
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.
Read more "Ophelia DeVore"Steph and Seth Curry
Steph and Seth Curry in 2019 became the first brothers to play against one another in the NBA Western Conference Finals.
Read more "Steph and Seth Curry"Sir W. Arthur Lewis
Sir W. Arthur Lewis (1915-1991) is the first and only black person to win a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1979.
Read more "Sir W. Arthur Lewis"Jackie Aina
Jackie Aina became the first black YouTuber -and first YouTuber ever- to win an NAACP Image Award in 2018.
Read more "Jackie Aina"Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) was the first Black person to be represented by a New York Gallery in 1941.
Read more "Jacob Lawrence"Dr. Roslyn C. Artis
Dr. Roslyn C. Artis served as the first female President of a collegiate institution in the United States after being named President of Benedict College in 2017.
Read more "Dr. Roslyn C. Artis"
