Dorothy Height

Dorothy Height was a civil rights activist and president of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years.

Marvel Jackson Cooke

Marvel Jackson Cooke in 1928 became the first woman reporter for the New York Amsterdam News and in 1950 became the first black woman to work for a mainstream white-owned newspaper.

Mary Browser

Mary Browser was a former slave and a Union spy during the Civil War.

Bassey Ikpi

Bassey Ikpi is a poet, writer, mental health advocate, and author. She toured with Def Poetry Jam from 2001 to 2004. In 2011 she founded The Siwe Project to encourage people with mental illnesses to “be inspired to seek help and to manage their illnesses and to not be afraid or ashamed to talk about […]

Jeanine Menze

Jeanine Mende was the first black woman U.S. Coast Guard aviator in 2005.

Shirley Ann Jackson

Shirley Ann Jackson was the first black woman to earn a doctorate from M.I.T. in 1973 and to be awarded the National Medal of Science.

Regina Jackson

Regina Jackson is the President and C.E.O. of the East Oakland Youth Development Center.

Luna Ekundayo

Luna Ekundayo founder/Creator KANJU GIRLS and organizer of the first Black Girls March Oakland March 30,2019.

Vanessa Wyche

Vanessa Wyche is the first black person of any gender to become the Deputy Director of the Johnson Space Center in 2018.

Raya Reaves

Raya Reaves founder City Girl Savings

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