Willie Mae Thornton better known as Big Mama Thornton was the original singer of Hound Dog in 1952, later popularized by Elvis Pressley and wrote and recorded Ball”n”Chain later popularized by Janis Joplin.
Read more "Willie Mae Thornton"Audrey Pulvar was the first black woman to anchor television news, on a French channel, Soir 3, in 2004.
Read more "Audrey Pulvar"Carlett A. Brown was a dancer and U.S.Navy Veteran who was willing relinquish her citizenship for sexual reassignment surgery. She was in Jet magazine 4 times and graced the cover once in 1953.
Read more "Carlett A. Brown"Ayesha Curry is the first Covergirl spokesperson who was neither an actress or a model at the time.
Read more "Ayesha Curry"Janet Mock is the first openly transgender person to set foot on the Spelman College campus in 2015.
Read more "Janet Mock"CEO Tina Wells founded the Buzz Marketing Group in 1996 to help companies capture the youth market’s tastes and attitudes.
Read more "Tina Wells"Marsha P. johnson was at the Stonewall uprising of 1969. a founding member of the Gay Liberation Front, co-founded the advocacy organization S.T.A.R. (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries), was known as the “mayor of Christopher Street“ and an AIDS activist with ACT UP.
Read more "Marsha P. Johnson"Neichelle Guidry Jones is the founder of Shepreaches, an online magazine that inspires black millennial women in ministry.
Read more "Neichelle Guidry Jones"Nadia Crow became Utah’s first black news anchor on Salt Lake City’s KTVX-Channel 4 in 2013.
Read more "Nadia Crow"Caroline Still Wiley Anderson was the first black woman doctor in 1878, and among the first black women doctors in the United States.
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