Kathy Chaney

Kathy Chaney first Black and Female Executive Editor of The Times of Northwest Indiana

Dambala

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.

Lena Richard

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.

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman 1822 – 1913 was posthumously named a general on Veteran’s Day, 11/11/2024

Ella Jenkins

Ella Jenkins 1924 – 2024. “The First Lady of the Children’s folk song”

Lisa Blunt

Lisa Blunt Rochester, born in 1962, became the first woman and Black person to represent Delaware in the Senate.

1st Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment

1st Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment was the first black regiment to be organized in a northern state to see combat during the Civil War.

54th Massschusetts Colored Regiment

54th Massschusetts Colored Regiment was the first Black regiment recruited during the Civil War.

Christopher Johnson

Christopher Johnson is Black and deaf assistant dean at the University of Cincinnati

Celestine S. Cook

Celestine S. Cook (1924-1985) was the first Black woman to serve on the National Business Committee for the Arts in 1974.

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