W.E.B. Du Bois was a professor, activist, writer and author who co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909, and was the first Black man to earn a PhD in the United States from Harvard in 1895.
Read more "W. E.B. Du Bois"Dee Barnes is the first woman hip-hop journalist with a television series, Pump It Up! in 1989.
Read more "Dee Barnes"Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin was a publisher, journalist, civil rights leader, suffragist, and editor of the Woman’s Era, the first national newspaper published by and for black women started in 1886.
Read more "Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin"Rebecca Pierce is a black and Jewish writer, editor, filmmaker and storyteller.
Read more "Rebecca Pierce"Elizabeth “Mum Bett” Freeman was the first slave to file, in 1781, and win her freedom in the state of Massachusetts.
Read more "Elizabeth “Mum Bett” Freeman"Sandra Bland was found dead in a Texas jail 3 days after her arrest following a traffic stop. Protests followed with #SandraBland and SayHerName. Her mother later won a wrongful death lawsuit.
Read more "Sandra Bland"Atima Lui is founder and CEO of Nudest whose “mission is to redefine the standard of beauty worldwide to match the full range of diversity in everyone’s skin”.
Read more "Atima Lui"Martha Wright-Reed was a prison phone justice advocate who in 2000 sued to get phone rates for prisoners reduced.
Read more "Martha Wright-Reed"Sheila Johnson first and only black woman to have stake in three pro sports teams: the Wizards (NBA), Capitals (NHL), and Mystics (WNBA).
Read more "Sheila Johnson"Callie House was a former slave who campaigned for reparations.
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