Key LGBTQ African-Americans
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This popular female African-American comic and writer is openly LGBTQ.
Who is Wanda Sykes?
This true "Hidden Figure" was a NASA mathematician and one of the first African-American women to work at NASA as a scientist.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This HMIN Young Professional is the AARCH Student Outreach Chair, and works as an Engineer in AF Tech Group.
Who is Chellvie Mbalia?
This country has the largest population of Afro-Latinos.
What is Brazil?
She is the first black woman to serve as Secretary of State.
Who is Condoleeza Rice?
He is the first openly LGBTQ African-American football player drafted into the NFL in 2014.
Who is Michael Sams?
Born into slavery, she persevered as an abolitionist and women's right activist; known for her speech "Ain't I a Woman?"
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This HMIN Young Professional started his career in AF, then moved to PE and recently earned his BS degree in Engineering.
Who is Damon Canady?
How many people of African decent live in Latin America today?
What is 130 Million?
This group of fighter and bomber pilots were the first African American soldiers to successfully complete their training and enter the Army Air Corps during WWII.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
This openly LGBTQ CNN anchor started his early journalist career on local TV networks in Alabama and Pennsylvania.
Who is Don Lemon?
Known for her flashy style, this Olympian set world records in 1988 for both the 100m and 200m still stand.
Who is Florence Griffith Joyner?
This HMIN Young Professional started his career in AF and is now a Unit Manager in Purchasing Parts Quality.
Who is Antjuan Gibson?
This dancer / activist is most know for her fight for equal rights for Afro-Latino artists.
Who is Sylvia Del Villard?
This four-star U.S. General was awarded 2 Presidential Medals of Freedom and served as U.S. Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell?
Marsha P. Johnson was an African-American LGBT Activist and a central figure in this New York LGBTQ riot in 1969.
What is The Stonewall Riot?
She was the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license. She specialized in stunt flying and parachuting, earning a living barnstorming and performing aerial tricks.
Who is Bessie Coleman?
This HMIN Young Professional has been an AF New Model Project Leader for several HMIN models.
Who is Vinsce Minor?
This genre was created from the influence of the black slave population in Latin American countries (including Cuba) and is described now as Afro-Latino music.
What is Son OR Rumba OR Salsa?
He was the United States Attorney General during the Obama Administration and now practices law in Washington, D.C.
Who is Eric Holder ?
He was a key advisor to Martin Luther King Jr. and also a LGBT rights activist?
Who is Baynard Rustin?
"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."
Who is Maya Angelou?
This student-run organization graduates the largest population of young Black engineers in the US.
What is the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)?
He led the Haitian Revolution and became the first Afro-Latino American president of Haiti in 1801.
Who is Francois-Dominique Toussaint Louverture?
(AKA: Toussaint L'Ouverture)
They gained their nickname and reputation from the home of 70% of their soldiers and the name the Germans gave them during WW1.
Who are the Harlem Hellfighters?