Celia Cruz

Celia Cruz 1925-2003 first Afro-Latina woman to appear on U.S. quarter.

Betty Okino

Betty Okino born 1975 first Black woman to win multiple individual World Championship medals in gymnastics.

Maroons are descendants of Africans in the Americas and Islands of the Indian Ocean who escaped from slavery.

Simone Biles born 1997, most decorated Olympic gymnast.

Buju Banton born Mark Anthony Myrie in 1973 became the first Caribbean artist to sell out 18,000 seats in under an hour.

Elaine Thompson-Herah born in 1990 in Jamaica, was the first woman sprinter to win the “sprint double” in consecutive Olympics.

Debbi Morgan born in 1956 Morgan was the first Black to win the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1989.

Nancy Abu-Bonsrah is the first Black woman to graduate from a neurosurgery program at Johns Hopkins University in June of 2024.

Spill is a Black owned Twitter alternative app.

Sammy Davis Jr. 1925 – 1990, in 1967 was the first Black man to land a cover on GQ.