Beverly Smith, born in 1946 is the twin sister of Barbara Smith and one of three authors of the Combahee River Collective Statement, “one of the most widely read discussions of Black feminism”

Barbara Smith botn 1946 co-founded the Combahee River Collective in 1974, the first widely recognized Black feminist lesbian socialist organization, which shaped global Black queer feminism.

Simone Diniz (Brazil) – One of the first openly lesbian Black women to bring a case of discrimination to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (2006), which ruled Brazil violated her rights.

Formed in 1979, the Harlem Honeys and Bears Swim team was created to teach senior citizens ages 64 and over, how to survive in the water, as a therapy for chronic illness, and to promote health and wellness in general.  

Seneca Village founded in 1825 by free Blacks in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, within what would become present-day Central Park. The settlement was located near the current Upper West Side neighborhood, approximately bounded by Central Park West and the axes of 82nd Street, 89th Street, and Seventh Avenue Had approximately 225 residents, three churches, two schools, and three cemeteries. Seneca […]

International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is commemorated on August 23rd. It was first celebrated in in Haiti (1998) and Gorée Island in Senegal (1999)

Lisa Cook born 1964 is the first Black woman to sit on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (2022).