Edward Enninful born in Ghana in 1972 is the editor-in-chief of British Vogue and is the magazine’s first male editor in 2018.

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Lorilyn Holmes born in 1956 in Washington, D.C., she and her wife, Rev Elder Darlene Garner, were the first black clergy, same-gender couple to be married in Washington DC.

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Dee Johnson, Founder ‘Lend a Hand Foundation’ (LAHF) whose mission is “to enhance the Quality of Life for Impoverished Children, Youth & Families.”

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Keith Ellison born in 1963, in 2018 was the first Black person elected to statewide office in Minnesota and the first Muslim person elected to a statewide office anywhere in the U.S.

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Constance Baker Motley, 1921 – 2005, first Black woman in the New York State Senate and first Black woman to argue a cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Gloria DeNard 1927 – 2020. Founded “Manna House Workshops” in 1967.

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