Blue Ivy Carter 2012 was awarded the Ashford & Simpson Songwriting Award at the 2019 BET Soul Train Awards for the song “Brown Skin Girl.” along with others including her parents Jay Z and Beyoncé.

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Blaxploitation or blacksploitation was a genre of Black exploitation films in the 1970s.

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Pigmeat Markham 1904 – 1981. Comic, singer, dancer, and actor.

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Steven Reed 1973 or 1974 elected 2019 first Black mayor of Montgomery, Alabama since its inception in 1819.

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Rudy Ray Moore 1928 – 2008 comic, producer, filmmaker, creator of Dolemite.

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Sherry D. Harris born 1957. In 1991 became the first Black lesbian elected to public office in the United States, to Seattle City Council.

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Jenny Mayers is the first Black woman to be invited into the Magic Circle, the official society of Magicians in the UK.

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StacyAnn Chin 1972 Jamaican poet and LGBT activist.

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Cayman Islands separates from Jamaica in 1962. George Town is the capital.

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Trinidad and Tobago is a Caribbean island with Port of Spain as the capital.

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