Lois Mailou Jones
Lois Mailou Jones 1905 to 1998. She was an artist and teacher. An ex pat in Paris in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Onesimus born in Africa and a slave in Boston introduced the concept of inoculation to the United States in 1721.
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The iconic cartoon character Betty Boop was inspired by a Black jazz singer in Harlem, Esther Jones and Introduced by cartoonist Max Fleischer in 1930.
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Rapper, Snoop Dogg, set the Guinness World Record for the largest Paradise cocktail on May 27, 2018.
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Oronike Odeleye co-founder #MuteRKelly movement.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is a black writer. author, and journalist who has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post and The Atlantic.
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Jessica Williams is The Daily Show’s first black woman correspondent.
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Oakland Native, Ryan Coogler, directed Black Panther in 2018, Fruitvale Station in 2013, and Creed in 2015.
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Toni Stone, born Marcenia Lyle Stone, was the first woman to play professional baseball as a part of the the San Francisco Sea Lions in the West Coast Negro Baseball League in 1945.
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Bessie Blount 1914 to 2009 was a nurse, physical therapist, wartime inventor and forensic handwriting and document analyst. She invented and patented an “invalid feeder” kidney shaped vomit basin out of papier-mâché. She was also the first black woman to train at Scotland Yard in 1977.
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