Joanna McClinton

Joanna McClinton born 1982, first woman of any race to serve as Speaker of the House in the state of Pennsylvania in 2023.

Louise H. Andrews

Louise H. Andrews invented lens holder accessory.

Dawn Staley born in 1970 is the first Black woman coach to have a perfect season

Patrick Braxton, first Black mayor of Newbern, Alabama.

Black Solidarity Day created in 1969 by Carlos E. Russell, Panamanian activist, historian, and playwright. It is the first Monday of November.

Kitty Black Perkins born 1948. Designed the first Black Barbie in the 1970s.

Mauree Turner born 1992 or 1993. first out non-binary United States legislator and the first Muslim member of the Oklahoma legislature.

Will Smith born 1968 only actor to have 8 consecutive movies gross more than 100 million.

Edmond Albius 1829 -1880 French horticulturalist and former slave who helped cultivate vanilla.

Isabel Wilkerson born in 1961 is the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism.