The Haitian-Japanese player, Naomi Osaka, became the first person from Japan to win a Grand Slam title after she defeated Serena Williams at the 2018 U.S. Open.

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Frederick Douglass “Fritz” Pollard was the first black head coach in the National Football League (NFL), Akron Pros, the team he would lead to the championship in 1920.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made history in November 2018 by becoming the youngest woman elected to Congress.

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Charles Luther Sifford was a professional golfer who was the first black man to play on the Professional Golfers’ Association of America (PGA) Tour in 1961.

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Janelle Commissiong, a Trinidadian politician, model, and beauty queen was crowned as the first black Miss Universe in 1977.

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Ishmael Reed born in 1938 is a poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, playwright, editor and publisher.

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Josephine Hulett formed the Youngstown Household Technicians in 1968. In 1970 she became a field organizer for the National Committee on Household Employment. She organized and recruited for the first national convention of household workers in 1971.

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Stokely Carmichael developed the Black Power movement, lead the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and served as the “Honorary Prime Minister” of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and  leader of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party.

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Leah Chase born in 1928 is a chef, restaurateur, author, and tv personality. She is known as the Queen of Creole Cuisine. Her New Orleans restaurant, Dookey Place was a gathering spot for activists in the 1960s.

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John Lewis is a politician and activist. He was one of the original 13 Freedom riders. As chairman of SNCC he helped organize the March on Washington in 1963.

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