Rumun Ndur born 1975. First Nigerian born player to play in the National Hockey League.

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“Five-Percent Nation” Black nationalist movement founded in 1964 by “Allah the Father”. Aka “Nations of Gods and Earth” or the “Five Percenters”

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Allah the Father 1928 – 1969. Born Clarence Edward Smith, founded “Five-Percent Nation”

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Natu Camara born in the Ivory Coast, raised in Guinea. Formed West Africa’s first ever female R & B/hip-hop band, the “Ideal Black Girls”

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Abraham Lincoln Woods Jr. 1928 – 2008. Helped coordinate the 1963 March on Washington.

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John Mbiti 1931-2019. The “father of African theology”.

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Natalie Braswell in 2021 became Connecticut’s first Black comptroller.

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Ngozi Ezike the first Black woman appointed to lead the Illinois Department of Public Health.

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Solomon Bates, born 1997. Second minor league baseball player to publicly come out as gay in 2022.

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