Brittany Packnett is an activist, educator, writer, and author. She founded Love + Power a “hub created to inspire, empower, and outfit everyday people to seismically shift society”. She co-founded Campaign Zero, a policy platform to end police violence.
Read more "Brittany Packnett"Lester Holt was the 1st black solo anchor of a weekday network nightly newscast, NBC Nightly News, 2015.
Read more "Lester Holt"Beyoncé became the second woman and first black woman artist to win an ASCAP award for Pop Songwriter of the year; 2001.
Read more "Beyoncé"Robert H. Lawrence, Jr. became the first black person to be trained as an astronaut; 1967.
Read more "Robert H. Lawrence, Jr."Nicki Minaj became the most charted female rapper in history when her song “Only” reached No. 1 on the R&B/hip-hop chart; 2015.
Read more "Nicki Minaj"Al Jarreau was the 1st vocalist to receive Grammy Awards in three separate categories: jazz (1977), pop (1978), and R&B (1985).
Read more "Al Jarreau"Chioma Okeke founded Choosing Nursing in 2015, an online program in the United States and Canada to prepare folks to pass the licensing exam.
Read more "Chioma Okeke"Brown Estate, the first and only black-owned estate winery in California’s Napa Valley, 1995.
Read more "Brown Estate"Peter Ramsey first black director to win an Oscar for best animated feature, for Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse , 2019.
Read more "Peter Ramsey"Merle Kofi Boyd first black woman to receive Dharma transmission in Zen Buddhism, 2007.
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