Oronike Odeleye co-founder #MuteRKelly movement.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates is a black writer. author, and journalist who has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post and The Atlantic.

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Jessica Williams is The Daily Show’s first black woman correspondent.

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Oakland Native, Ryan Coogler, directed Black Panther in 2018, Fruitvale Station in 2013, and Creed in 2015.

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Toni Stone, born Marcenia Lyle Stone, was the first woman to play professional baseball as a part of the the San Francisco Sea Lions in the West Coast Negro Baseball League in 1945.

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Bessie Blount 1914 to 2009 was a nurse, physical therapist, wartime inventor and forensic handwriting and document analyst. She invented and patented an “invalid feeder” kidney shaped vomit basin out of papier-mâché. She was also the first black woman to train at Scotland Yard in 1977.

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A. Leon Higginbotham was the seventh black Article III judge appointed in the United States, and the first black United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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Founded by Dr. Shayla Creer and Robert McCray, Live Alkaline Water became the first Black-owned water brand to sell its products on Walmart shelves in 2018.

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Henry Ossawa Tannerwas an American artist and the first black painter to gain international acclaim. His painting entitled Daniel in the Lions’ Den was accepted into the 1896 Salon, the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

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Jane Wright, MD. became the first woman elected president of the New York Cancer Society after serving as associate the dean and head of cancer chemotherapy department at New York Medical College in New York City in 1967.

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