Mary McLeod Bethune Statue

Mary McLeod Bethune Statue first Black woman represented in the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol.

Barbara Harris

Barbara Clementine Harris 1930-2020. First woman consecrated a bishop in the Anglican Communion in 1989.

Ronald Lewis 1951-2021 founded the “House of Dance and Feathers” in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, a monument to Black street culture.

Anna Pauline “Pauli” Murray 1910 – 1985 was a lawyer, writer, activist and the first Black woman to be an Episcopal priest.

Montserrat nicknamed “The Emerald Isle of the Caribbean”.

Inez Smith Reid born 1937 was the first Inspector General of the EPA.

Raquel Willis born 1995. Writer, editor, transgender rights activist.

Debby King 1949 – 2001. An “artist liaison”. Known as “the soul of Carnegie”

Emil Wilbekin born 1967 journalist and editor and founder of “Native Son” which lifts up Black gay men.