An American actress, dancer, choreographer, singer-songwriter, director, producer. She was in several episodes of "A different world" and made famous the line, "relax, relate, release".
Debbie Allen
One of the first American woman to become a self-made millionaire specializing in hair products for African American hair.
Madam CJ Walker
Artist created a country rap song called that reached number 19 on Billboard hot country songs, remixed featuring Billy Ray Cyrus
Lil Nas - Old Town Road
Developed tech leading to the touch-tone phone, fax, solar cells, fiber optic cables and tech enabling caller ID and call waiting
Physicist, Dr. Shirley Jackson
Customer Focus: The set of "how many" Customer Focus initiatives continue to improve Blue Cross’ understanding of customer and member needs and develop key capabilities across high-value touchpoints:
7
She was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. best known for her series of seven autobiographies, . The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969),which brought her international recognition and acclaim. Famous poems include, Still I rise and Phenomenal women
Maya Angelou
This woman was one of 17 children who became the first and only child of 17 who went to school. She went on to to become the founder of Daytona Beach Literary and Industrial School.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Forbes list him as highest Paid actor in 2020 at $87.5 Million
Dwayne Johnson
Invented the artificial heart pacemaker control unit
Otis Boykin, Inventor/Engineer
To achieve outstanding in 2021, how many million contracts must BCBSM exceed
3.050 Million
An American novelist, playwright essayist, poet and activist. He is the writer of: Go Tell it on the Mountain, If Beale Street could Talk and Just Above my Head, Notes of a Native Son. An unfinished manuscript, Remember this House was expanded into a documentary fil
James Baldwin
First African American Female Astronaut
Mae C. Jemison
Oldest operating Jazz club, operating since May 1934, hosting Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, George Shearing, Sara Vaughn, Cab Calloway Nat "King" Cole and others.
Bakers Keyboard Lounge
Discovered hundreds of uses for previously useless vegetables and fruits, including the peanut
George Washington Carver, Botanical Researcher
What is our 2021 Underwriting goal, Target
$0
She is an American contemporary, gouache visual artist with various awards who can literally knock you out.
Laylah Ali
She is the first black American woman to run for US President through a major party. She was a seven-term Congresswoman.
Shirley Chisholm
She is a research and scientific lead at the National Institute of Health who is identified as a key scientist leading the Modern Covid-19 vaccine effort
Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett
First surgeon to successfully separate craniopagus twins
Ben Carson, Pediatric Neurosurgeon
What is our 2021 Underwriting goal, Outstanding
$350 Million
This multi-talented Detroit local, performed the Opera classic, Nessun Dorma, impromptu for Luciano Pavarotti when he reported to be sick 30 minutes before his scheduled performance
Aretha Franklin
An astronomer and surveyor, he used Thomas Jefferson's own words to call out the injustice of slavery. …"'We hold these truths to be Self evident, that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.'"
Benjamin Banneker
49th Vice President of the US. First female VP, highest ranking female in US history
Kamala Harris
Who invented the first traffic signal, a simple stop and go system which required hand cranking to operate
Garrett A. Morgan
To achieve Target in 2021, how many many million contracts must BCBSM obtain? "Contract Bands"
2.850 to 3.050 million