Natu Camara born in the Ivory Coast, raised in Guinea. Formed West Africa’s first ever female R & B/hip-hop band, the “Ideal Black Girls”

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Abraham Lincoln Woods Jr. 1928 – 2008. Helped coordinate the 1963 March on Washington.

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John Mbiti 1931-2019. The “father of African theology”.

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Natalie Braswell in 2021 became Connecticut’s first Black comptroller.

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Ngozi Ezike the first Black woman appointed to lead the Illinois Department of Public Health.

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Solomon Bates, born 1997. Second minor league baseball player to publicly come out as gay in 2022.

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Katanji Brown Jackson born in 1970. First Black woman on the United States Supreme Court.

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Biyi Bandele 1967-2022. Nigerian novelist playwright and filmmaker.

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William Chester Ruth 1882-1971. Inventor, including “baler feeder”.

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