Michael Sam born 1990, in 2014 was the first NFL draft pick to come out, and in 2015 was the first openly gay player in the CFL, Canadian Football League.

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Angela Davis born in 1944 co-founded Critical Resistance which called for the abolition of the so-called prison-industrial complex and she came out as a lesbian in 1997.

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Roy Simmons 1956 – 2014. Second former NFL player to come out as gay, first to reveal that he was HIV positive.

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Siya born in 1987 is a hip-hop recording artist.

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Natalie Devora born 1962 is an activist, writer and author of Black Girl White Skin: A Life in Stories.

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Ruth Beckford, 1925 – 2019, toured with Katharine Dunham, founder of Oakland Dance Association.

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Melvin Dixon 1950 – 1992 professor, author, poet

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Alice Walker born 1944 is a writer, poet, and activist. She coined the term “womanist” to describe a feminist of color. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Color Purple.

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Assotto Saint 1957 to 1994 was a Haitian born performance artist, poet, and publisher.

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Alicia Garza born 1981 cofounded Black Lives Matter in 2013.

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