Surgery
Nation’s oldest and largest organization representing Black physicians and health care professionals in the United States,
National Medical Association
After earning his medical degree in 1897 from Boston University, he became the first African American psychiatrist.
Solomon Carter Fuller
Who has won the most grammys in history (and should have gotten Album of the Year in 2023)?
Beyonce
Became best known for improving the pacemaker.
Otis Boykin
First black woman to get an MD?
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
The first Black American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress
Dorothy Dandridge
Who was the first man to discover the north pole?
Matthew Henson
Who got their EGOT Status this Sunday at the Grammy's for an audio book?
Who first performed the breakthrough medical procedure, an open heart surgery?
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
First African American physician to publish a textbook - Syphilis and Its Treatment, 1936?
Dr. William Augustus Hinton
First Black EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) winner?
Whoopi Goldberg
What anti-slavery newspaper was founded by Frederick Douglass?
What is the North Star
first black neurosurgeon in the United States?
Alexa Irene Canady
Who was known as the “father of blood banking"?
Charles Richard Drew
First ever African-American animated Disney princess!
Tiana
These women were members of a team of forty specialists involved in the delivery of the McCaughey septuplets at the Iowa Methodist Medical Center?
Dr. Paula Renee Mahone
and Dr. Karen Lynn Drake
First Black Female astronaut in NASA history (August, 1992).
Dr. Mae C. Jemison
Is known as a MLB All-Star and NFL Pro Bowler
Bo Jackson