Pamela Price
Pamela Price, the first Black woman District Attorney of Alameda County is also the first Alameda County District Attorney to be recalled in the November 5 2024 election.
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Kathy Chaney first Black and Female Executive Editor of The Times of Northwest Indiana
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Damballa, also spelled Damballah, Dambala, Dambalah, among other variations (Haitian Creole: Danbala), is one spirits in West African Vodun, Haitian Voodoo and other African diaspora religious traditions such as Obeah. He is traditionally portrayed as a great white or black serpent, but may also be depicted as a rainbow. Damballa originated in the city of Wedo (Whydah or Ouidah) in modern-day Benin.
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Lena Richard 1892 or 1893-1950. Chef, cookbook author, restaurateur, and frozen food entrepreneur. First Black woman to host her own television show from 1949 to 1950 on a local station in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Harriet Tubman 1822 – 1913 was posthumously named a general on Veteran’s Day, 11/11/2024
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Ella Jenkins 1924 – 2024. “The First Lady of the Children’s folk song”
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Lisa Blunt Rochester, born in 1962, became the first woman and Black person to represent Delaware in the Senate.
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1st Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment was the first black regiment to be organized in a northern state to see combat during the Civil War.
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54th Massschusetts Colored Regiment was the first Black regiment recruited during the Civil War.
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