Will Smith

Will Smith born 1968 only actor to have 8 consecutive movies gross more than 100 million.

Edmond Albius

Edmond Albius 1829 -1880 French horticulturalist and former slave who helped cultivate vanilla.

Isabel Wilkerson born in 1961 is the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism.

Kim Hamilton 1932-2013 one of the first Black actors on “Days of our Lives” and the only Black actor with a speaking role on “Leave it to Beaver”

Starr Brown, transgender woman shot to death on April 19, 2024 in Memphis, Tennessee. The 11th transgender person killed in 2024.

Woni Spotts born in 1964 is the first Black woman to visit every country and continent in the world in 2018.

South Africa in 1910 became the first African nation to decolonize, became independent from Britain.

Alice Randall, born 1959, is the first Black woman to cowrite a number 1 song in Country music, “Xs & Os” by Trisha Yearwood.

Dalila Scruggs Smithsonian American Art Museum’s first Black Art Curator.

Crystal James was named as the first Black woman police chief at the University of Michigan in 2024.