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Mabel Treadwell Grammer (1913-2002)
Tireless adoption advocate and civil rights activist Mabel T. Grammer was born on December 23, 1913, in Hot Springs, Arkansas,...
William B. Hartgrove, Jr. (1877-1918)
William B. Hartgrove, Jr. one of the founders of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History...
Adrienne Kennedy (1931- )
Adrienne Kennedy has earned a place as one of contemporary America’s most renowned and admired African American authors, lecturers, and...
Farai Chideya (1969- )
Farai Chideya is an American author, radio host, and Pop and Politics radio series producer and host. She was born...
Mabel Janet Byrd (1895-1988)
Mabel Byrd, a life-long educator, researcher, and civil rights activist, was the first African American to attend the University of...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (1954 – )
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a Nigerian economist who, on March 3, 2021, was sworn in as the first woman and first...
Harriet Washington (1951- )
Harriet Washington is a prolific author and medical ethicist who wrote the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Medical Apartheid:...
Lucille Boynton Skaggs Edwards (1875-1972)
Lucille Boynton Skaggs Edwards, a journalist and suffragist, was the first African American woman magazine publisher in Nebraska. Edwards was...
Jonathan Capehart (1967- )
Jonathan T. Capehart is a journalist and television anchor. He was born in Newark, New Jersey on July 2, 1967....
