Rosie Lee Tompkins

1936-2006

Zakia McKensey

Zakia McKensey founder and executive director of the Nationz Foundation in Richmond, Virginia.

Bill Spiller 1913 – 1988, first Black golfer to complete in a major.

Black Girl Hockey Club is “a community space for Black women in hockey and the folks who love us”. For more info log onto blackgirlhockeyclub.org

Afro-Colombian Day has been celebrated on May 21, since 2001. It celebrates the abolishment of slavery in Columbia on that date in 1851.

Shakie Peters, 32, Black Trangender woman murdered on July 1, 2020.

Emancipation Day is August 1st in Jamaica.

Ja’Dayia Kursh, was crowned Miss Rodeo Coal Hill Arkansas in 2017 on her 17th birthday. First Black rodeo Queen.

Stacy Osur-Kuffuor, first Black woman to write a Marvel movie.

James Pierce McDonald 9/4/1916 – 3/8/1990. On July 29, 1940 was in the first interracial tennis match.