North America – Honduras
George Cadle Price (1919–2011)
George Cadle Price, PC, OCC was a Belizean statesman who served twice as head of government of Belize, from 1961...
TLC (1991- )
TLC, a three-member American R&B girl group which incorporates elements of hip-hop and pop, was formed in 1991 in Atlanta, Georgia. Two of the members,...
Kenia Martinez (1988– )
“Image Ownership: Public Domain” Twenty-two-year-old Kenia Martinez was crowned Miss Universe Honduras on July 8, 2010. She went on to...
John Melvin Jones (1944- )
John Melvin Jones was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Guyana in 2008. Nominated by President George W. Bush on June 30,...
Roger Dwayne Pierce (1951- )
Roger D. Pierce, U.S. Ambassador to Cape Verde, was born in Omaha, Nebraska. Pierce earned his B.A. degree in Spanish...
Ericka Yadira Cruz Escalante (1981- )
Ericka Yadira Cruz Escalante became the first Miss Mexico of African descent. With that victory she completed in the Miss...
Teddy B. Taylor (1953- )
Born in Washington, D.C. in 1953, Teddy Bernard Taylor graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Florida A&M...
Larry L. Palmer (1949- )
On November 1, 2011, President Barack H. Obama appointed Larry L. Palmer the United States Ambassador to Barbados and the...
Clinton E. Knox (1908-1980)
Clinton Everett Knox was the first African American secretary to the United States Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
