1) Kizzmekia Corbett, a Black woman scientist, helped unlock the science of the Covid Vaccine. Read more about her…
2) Walter Mosley is an “American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins, a Black private investigator living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California; they are perhaps his most popular works. In 2020, Mosley received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, making him the first Black man to receive the honor.” Read more about him…
3) Misty Copeland makes history as the first African American Female Principal Dancer with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. Read more about her…
4) Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones made history as the first openly gay Black men elected to Congress. Torres serves as the Democratic Representative for New York’s District 15, and Jones serves as the Democratic Representative for New York’s District
5) Dr. Nadine Burke Harris is an award-winning physician, researcher, and advocate dedicated to changing the way our society responds to one of the most serious, expensive, and widespread public health crises of our time: childhood trauma. She was appointed as California’s first-ever Surgeon General by Governor Gavin Newsom in January 2019. Read more about her…
6) Mayor Dedrick D. Johnson, Sr. became the first African American elected as mayor for Texas City, Texas. Read more about him…
7) Renée Richardson Gosline is a Senior Lecturer in the Management Science group at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the head of the Human-First AI Group at MIT’s Initiative on The Digital Economy. Read more about her…
8) History was made on Monday, November 23, 2020, as an all-Black referee staff took the field during the Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Los Angeles Rams NFL game in Tampa, Florida.
9) Dr. Constance Carroll was nominated in 2011 by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the United States Senate to serve on the National Humanities Council, which is affiliated with the National Endowment for the Humanities and was recently appointed by President Biden to serve on the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. She is also a member of the national boards of the Community College Baccalaureate Association, the College Promise National Advisory Board, and the Community College Humanities Association. Currently, Dr. Carroll serves as the president of the California Community College Baccalaureate Association, a nonprofit organization that is supporting and expanding four-year degrees at the state’s community colleges in select workforce fields.
