Virginia Stephens Coker 1903 – 1986. First African American woman to receive a law degree University of California Berkeley‘s Boalt School of Law in 1929. First Black woman lawyer in the state of California.
Read more "Virginia Stephens Coker"National Hispanic Heritage Month September 15 – October 15.
Read more "National Hispanic Heritage Month"Black Hispanic and Latino Americans according to the 2010 Census comprise .04% of the U.S. population, 2.5% of the Black and Hispanic and Latino American populations respectively.
Read more "Black Hispanic and Latino Americans"Vincente Guerrero 1782 -1831 of Afro-Mexican descent. Was also the second president of Mexico.
Read more "Vincente Guerrero"Simone Biles five gymnastic championships most decorated gymnast.
Read more "Simone Biles"Brigid Kosgei born 20 February 1994 Kenyan marathon runner, she is the current marathon world record holder, who broke the 16-year-old women’s marathon world record with 2:14:04 on 13 October 2019 at the Chicago Marathon.
Read more "Brigid Kosgei"Santiago Declaration http://www.santiagodeclaration.org/
Read more "Santiago Declaration"Eliud Kipchoge born 11/5/84 of Kenya, on 10/12/19 became the first person to run a marathon in under two hours.
Read more "Eliud Kipchoge"Sylvia Mendez born 6/7/1946 at the core of Mendez vs. Westminster School District Orange County (1946) desegregation case long before Brown v. Board of Education.
Read more "Sylvia Mendez"Abiy Ahmed born August 15, 1976 is the 4th and current Prime Minister of Ethiopia. He is a 2019 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
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