Music Moguls
First Black Woman to Headline Coachella.
Beyonce
She refused to give up her seat in 1955.
Rosa Parks
She started as Brandy’s stepmother in Cinderella.
Whitney Houston
First African American woman to win an Olympic all-around gold medal.
Gabby Douglas
Known as the Queen of African American Poetry.
Maya Angelou
She is known as the “Queen of Soul”.
Aretha Franklin
Who was the first female vice president?
Kamala Harris
Lead actress in a known Drama known as “Annalise Keating”.
Viola Davis
She won her first Grand Slam while Pregnant in 2017.
Serena Williams
Starred in Dreamgirls and won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
Jennifer Hudson
This rapper became the first solo female artist to win Best Rap Album at the Grammys.
Cardi B
She escaped slavery and helped guide others to freedom.
Harriet Tubman
Starred in the “Color Purple” and has their own talk show.
Track star known as the fastest woman in the world in 2020.
Sha’Carri Richardson
She wrote the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, a landmark in African American literature.
Zora Neale Hurston
She was the first female rapper inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Missy Eliot
First woman to be speaker of the House of Representatives.
Nancy Pelosi
She redefined modern Black female storytelling through television.
Issa Rae
She is a gymnastics legend, widely considered the greatest of all time.
Simone Biles
First Black woman elected to the U.S.
Congress in 1968.
Shirley Chisholm
She became the youngest artist to win Album of the Year at the Grammys.
Billie Eilish
This First Lady wrote the bestselling memoir.
Michelle Obama
She starred as Shuri, Wakanda's tech genius, in Black Panther and became a Marvel icon.
Letitia Wright
She became a global basketball sensation at UConn and was drafted #1 in the WNBA in 2024.
Caitlin Clark
She became the first woman of color to direct a Marvel superhero film (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever).
Chloe Zhao