John Robert Lewis sunrise 2/21/1940, sunset 7/17/2020. John Lewis was a politician and activist. He was one of the original 13 Freedom riders. As chairman of SNCC he helped organize the March on Washington in 1963.
Read more "R.I.P. John Lewis"Lillian Richard 1891-1956. actress who portrayed “Aunt Jemima”.
Read more "Lillian Richard"Velda Christian Barbour 1905-2001. Creator of the original Playboy Bunny outfit.
Read more "Velda Wynn Valdes"Shani Dowell is the first Black woman to raise $1 million for a tech start up in Tennessee
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Read more "Naya Rivera"Baba Ken Okulolo musician born in 1950 in Nigeria.
Read more "Baba Ken Okulolo"Anna Murray-Douglass, 1813-1882. Born free and the first wife of Frederick Douglass. She was an abolitionist who supported her husband’s work financially.
Read more "Anna Murray-Douglass"Anna Julia Cooper 1858-1964 author, educator, sociologist, speaker, Black Liberation activist, aka “mother of Black feminism”.
Read more "Anna J. Cooper"Brehanna Daniels, born 1994, the first Black woman tire changer to “pit” a vehicle in a national NASCAR race
Read more "Brehanna Daniels"Nicholas Johnson first Black valedictorian at Princeton, 2020.
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