Midshipman 1st Class Sydney Barber is the first Black woman to serve as brigade commander at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. She serves for one semester.

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Frederick Weston 1946 – 2020. Queer artist and poet.

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Michelle McMurry-Heath born in 1979 in Oakland, California, is the first Black graduate of Duke University‘s MD / Ph.D. Medical Scientist Training Program and first Black and first woman of any race to run the Biotechnology Innovation Organization.

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Noah Harris first Black man elected by Harvard University student body to be president of Undergraduate Council on November 12, 2020.

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Burt Toler, 1928 – 2009, first Black official in NFL.

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Kitsune Brewing Company, Arizona’s only Black owned brewery.

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Loveis Wise, 25, non-binary illustrator.

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In 2020, Ritchie Torres, born March 12, 1988, was the first gay Afro-Latino to be elected to Congress.

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Symone Sanders born 12/10/1986 youngest press secretary in history, age 25, for Bernie Saunders in 2016.

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Baby Nancy, first Black doll to have an Afro in 1968, inducted in National Toy Hall of Fame in 2020.

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