Leonidas Berry
Leonidas Berry (1902-1995) was the first black specialist in the digestive diseases endoscopy field, 1934.
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Kenyette Tisha Barnes
Kenyette Tisha Barnes co-founder of #MuteRKelly.
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Dr. Saint Elmo Brady the first black person to earn a Ph.D in chemistry in 1916.
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Moms Mabley was born in 1894 and died in 1975 and was billed “as the funniest woman in the world”. She was one of the first comics to come out as a lesbian in 1921.
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Marc Hannah founded computer programs that were instrumental in the creation of special effects for films, 1982.
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True Reformers Bank was the 1st black-owned bank, Virginia; 1889.
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W.E.B. Du Bois was a professor, activist, writer and author who co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909, and was the first Black man to earn a PhD in the United States from Harvard in 1895.
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Dee Barnes is the first woman hip-hop journalist with a television series, Pump It Up! in 1989.
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Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin was a publisher, journalist, civil rights leader, suffragist, and editor of the Woman’s Era, the first national newspaper published by and for black women started in 1886.
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Rebecca Pierce is a black and Jewish writer, editor, filmmaker and storyteller.
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