Sandra Douglass Morgan is an American attorney and executive. She is currently the first black woman to hold the title as president of the Las Vegas Raiders and for any National Football League team!
Alena Analeigh Wicker got accepted into medical school in 2022 at 13 years old. She is a student at both Arizona State University and Oakwood University, where she is simultaneously earning two separate undergraduate degrees in biological sciences.
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Bessie Coleman was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman and first Native American to hold a pilot license. She earned her license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale on June 15, 1921, and was the first Black person to earn an international pilot's license
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Monica Jones Kaufman Pearson is an African-American journalist and news anchor. Pearson's career first started in Louisville, Kentucky as an anchor and reporter for WHAS-TV, while also working as a reporter for the Louisville Times. When Pearson moved to Atlanta, Georgia in 1975, she became the first female and African-American to anchor the evening news at WSB-TV.
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Marsai Martin is an American actress best known for her role as Diane Johnson on ABC sitcom Black-ish from 2014-2022. At age 16, she made history by officially receiving the Guinness World Records award for being the youngest executive producer of a major Hollywood movie. She technically earned the title at 14 for her film Little, starring Insecure's Issa Rae and Girls Trip's Regina Hall, which hit theaters in 2019.
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Dr. Nicole Steele is a Mentor, motivator, multi-faceted business woman and modern-day treasure hunter. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Diamond In The Rough Youth Development Program, Inc. and Founding Partner of Gem Makers, LLC., a Coaching, and Consulting Company. In addition, she is co-founder of The Beyond Brilliant Network and also is Executive Producer and co-host of The Beyond Brilliant Television Broadcast. She has committed her life to empowering ladies, leaders, and little girls, and helping them uncover the beauty boldness and brilliance within.
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Kamala Devi Harris was born on October 20, 1964. She is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th vice president of the United States. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African American and first Asian American vice president. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017 and as a United States senator representing California
from 2017 to 2021. Born in Oakland, California, Harris graduated from Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, |
Rosalind G. Brewer, also known as "Roz", is an American businesswoman serving as the CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance. With her appointment at Walgreens in March 2021, she is one of only two Black women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies (along with Thasunda Duckett). Brewer is the first African American woman to become CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance, group president and COO of Starbucks, and CEO of Sam’s Club. She has also held various leadership positions at Walmart and Kimberly-Clark.
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Madam C.J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove; December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919) was an African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records.[1] Multiple sources mention that although other women (like Mary Ellen Pleasant) might have been the first, their wealth is not as well-documented. Walker made her fortune by developing and marketing a line of cosmetics and hair care products for black women through the business she founded, Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company.
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Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner (May 17, 1912 - January 13, 2006) was an African American inventor who received five patents in her lifetime. She holds the record for the most patents awarded to a Black woman by the U.S government. Kenner’s first and most noted patent was in 1957 for the sanitary belt, the precursor invention to sanitary pads. She originally invented the belt 30 years prior in the 1920s but was not able to afford a patent and she faced racial discrimination when trying to market the product. Kenner’s following four patents included a sanitary belt with a moisture-resistant pocket, a toilet tissue holder, a hard-surface tray and pocket for holding items that mount to wheelchairs/walkers, and a wall-mountable back washer and massager.
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Inventor of the first home security system Her invention was the first closed-circuit television security system. Marie’s home security system laid the foundation for other versions of various security systems that the world uses today in homes, businesses, and some private and public places.
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Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson (born September 14, 1970) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Jackson was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Joe Biden on February 25, 2022. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 7, 2022, and sworn into office on June 30, 2022.
Xernona Clayton Brady (née Brewster, born August 30, 1930) is an American civil rights leader and broadcasting executive. During the Civil Rights Movement, she worked for the National Urban League and Southern Christian Leadership Conference, where she became involved in the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Later, Clayton went into television, where she became the first African American from the southern United States to host a daily prime talk show. She became corporate vice president for urban affairs for Turner Broadcasting.
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Patricia Bath (November 4, 1942 – May 30, 2019) was an American ophthalmologist, inventor, humanitarian, and academic. She invented an improved device for laser cataract surgery. Her invention was called Laserphaco Probe, which she patented in 1986.[1] She also became the first woman member of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, first woman to lead a post-graduate training program in ophthalmology, and first woman elected to the honorary staff of the UCLA Medical Center. Bath was the first African-American person to serve as a resident in ophthalmology at New York University. She was also the first African-American woman to serve on staff as a surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center. Bath was the first African-American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical purpose. A holder of five patents, she also founded the non-profit American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness in Washington, D.C.]
In the face of poverty and discrimination, Bessie Coleman (1892-1926) beat all odds and became the first African American female pilot in the United States. After being refused admission to every flying school she approached in the U.S., Coleman traveled to Paris to train, where she was the only non-white student in her aviation class. Despite issues of racism and sexism, Coleman graduated with an international pilot's license and went on to become a wildly popular aviatrix drawing thousands of people to her air shows. After her tragic death in a plane-related accident in 1926, black and female pilots nationwide began honoring Coleman with an annual fly-over tribute above her grave site.
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