Esperanza Spalding was gifted with a natural talent for music. Not only is she an amazing jazz singer, but she can also play the upright bass at the same time, a skill that takes most musicians years to be able to do. While her music is categorized as jazz, she incorporates elements of R&B and Brazilian music into her songs.
In 2022, Morgan achieved a historic milestone by becoming the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s first Black woman ballerina in its fifty year existence.
Visual activist who documents Black gay, lesbian, transgender, and intersex people in South Africa.
In a career spanning more than 70 years, Elizabeth Catlett has created sculptures that celebrate the heroic strength and endurance of African-American and Mexican working-class women.
One of the Little Rock Nine who helped integrate American schools
She was one of the first African Americans at the CIA to lose her life in service to her country.
A successful dressmaker and clubwoman, Alice Casneau had an active professional and public life in Boston during the turn of the 20th century.
History interpreter for the National Park Service (US)
US National Security Agency Chief of Staff
Remembered as someone “pointed and convincing in speech, winning in manner, [and] overpowering in appeal,” community and religious leader Eliza Ann Gardner exemplified the social activist tradition within African-American churches.