Jayne Kennedy
Jayne Kennedy became the first black woman to host The NFL Today in 1978.
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Byllye Yvonne Avery founded the National Black Women’s Health Project (now known as the Black Women’s Health Imperative), the first national organization to specialize in black women’s reproductive health issues in 1983.
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Shani Hilton is the VP of News and Programming, Buzz Feed News.
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Sarah Loguen Fraser was the fourth black woman doctor in the United States and the first female doctor of any race in the Dominican Republic in 1884.
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Marian Croak invented VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and holds more than 200 patents.
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Madeline Turner invented the fruit press, she lived in Oakland, California and was granted a patent for it in 1916.
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SWIVEL Beauty co-founders Jennifer Lambert and Jihan Thomas co-founded SWIVEL BEAUTY, an app that connects women of color to hair professionals all over the U.S, in 2017.
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