John Gloucester, former slave, founded the 1st black Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, PA 1807.

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bell hooks is an author, feminist, teacher, and scholar. Coined the phrase “oppositional gaze” in 1992.

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Kehinde Wiley was the 1st black male artist commissioned for U.S. president portrait to be displayed in the Smithsonian, 2018.

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Cheryl Clarke is a lesbian poet, essayist, educator, feminist, and activist.

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Rev. Lemuel Haynes was the 1st black male ordained as a Christian minister in the United States, 1785.

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Shakti Butler is President and Founder of World Trust Educational Services.

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Rudolph Walker 1st black actor to regularly appear in a tv series in Great Britain in1970.

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Sapphire is an author and poet. She wrote Push and had a cameo in the movie renamed Precious.

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James Weldon Johnson was the 1st black man to be chosen as executive secretary of NAACP, effectively the operating officer in1917.

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Cheryl Dunye is a filmmaker, tv director, and producer. The Watermelon Woman in 1996, her feature length debut, was the first feature-length narrative film written and directed by out black lesbians about black lesbians.

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