Ella Jones first Black and first woman mayor of Ferguson, MO in 2020.

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Kamoinge, Black photography collective from 1963 – 2013. Translation from Kenyan language is “a group of people acting and working together.”

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Rashida Jones is the first Black leader of a cable news network on 2/1/2021 as President of MSNBC News.

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Monica R. Richardson first Black Executive Editor of the Miami Herald in it’s 117 year history on 1/1/2021.

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George Napper, 81, died 10/2/2020. He was Atlanta, Georgia’s first Black Chief of Police in 1978.

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Anne Spencer 1882-1975. First Virginian and one of three Black women in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry.

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Bill Russell born 1934 first Black head coach in the NBA in 1966.

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Felycya Harris, 33, Black transgender woman shot and killed in Augusta, Georgia, 10/6/2020.

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Montaire Jones born May 18, 1987 along with Ritchie Torres in 2020 were elected as the first two openly gay Black men in Congress.

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World AIDS DAY established December 1, 1988.

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