Jayne Kennedy born 1951. First Black person to grace the cover of Playboy magazine.

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Fannie Barrier Williams 1855-1944. Educator and activist. Helped found NAACP and other organizations.

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Willie O’Ree and Grant Fuhr are the second and first Black players in the National Hockey League Hall of Fame.

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Lani Guinier, 1950-2022, educator and legal scholar. First woman of color appointed to a tenured position at Harvard Law School.

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André Leon Talley, 1948-2022, fashion journalist, stylist, creative director, and editor.

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Bell hooks, aka Gloria Jean Watkins 1952-2021 author, professor, and activist.

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Suzan-Lori Parks born 1963. First Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2002.

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Keechant Sewell born 1972 in 2021 became the first Black woman police chief in the New York Police Department’s 176 year history.

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Susan Hutson first Black woman to be sheriff of Orleans parish in Louisiana, 2021.

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The Bahamas: known officially as the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. Capital city Nassau.

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