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Howard Nathaniel Lee (1934- )
Howard Nathaniel Lee made history in 1969 as the first African American to be elected mayor of any majority-white city...
Sandra Douglass Morgan (1978- )
Sandra Douglass Morgan is an attorney and executive currently serving as the president of the Las Vegas Raiders football team....
Tidjane Thiam (1962- )
African investment banker Tidjane Thiam who was co-CEO of Credit Suisse from 2015 to 2020, was born one of seven...
Thaddeus H. Spratlen: Scholar and Philanthropist Generating Economic Change in Black America
On May 18, 2021, longtime University of Washington Professor Emeritus Thaddeus Spratlen died in Seattle, Washington at the age of...
Anderson .Paak (1986 – )
Brandon Paak Anderson, better known as Anderson .Paak, is an American rapper, songwriter, producer, and drummer. Born on February 8,...
Lloyd Price (1933-2021)
Composer, Lyricist, and Rhythm & Blues Singer, Lloyd Price, was born on March 9, 1933, in Kenner, Louisiana, to Louis...
George Washington Biggs (1925-2020)
George Washington Biggs was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen. Biggs was born on July 2, 1925 in Nogales, Arizona...
Shawna Rochelle (Ng A Qui) Kimbrell (1976- )
Lieutenant Colonel Shawna Rochelle Kimbrell is the first African American female fighter pilot in the United States Air Force. Kimbrell...
James E. Walton (1944-2019)
James E. Walton, longtime professor of English at California State University, Fresno, was born on September 13, 1944 in Bessemer,...
