Sandra Bland was found dead in a Texas jail 3 days after her arrest following a traffic stop. Protests followed with #SandraBland and SayHerName. Her mother later won a wrongful death lawsuit.

Atima Lui is founder and CEO of Nudest whose “mission is to redefine the standard of beauty worldwide to match the full range of diversity in everyone’s skin”.

Sheila Johnson first and only black woman to have stake in three pro sports teams: the Wizards (NBA), Capitals (NHL), and Mystics (WNBA).

Dorothy Height was a civil rights activist and president of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years.

Marvel Jackson Cooke in 1928 became the first woman reporter for the New York Amsterdam News and in 1950 became the first black woman to work for a mainstream white-owned newspaper.

Bassey Ikpi is a poet, writer, mental health advocate, and author. She toured with Def Poetry Jam from 2001 to 2004. In 2011 she founded The Siwe Project to encourage people with mental illnesses to “be inspired to seek help and to manage their illnesses and to not be afraid or ashamed to talk about […]