She's Got Game
The most decorated US gymnast with 30 Olympic and world champ medals
Who is Simone Biles?
The first Black woman to star in her own show on Nickelodeon
The first Black woman to be nominated and win an Emmy as a game show host First Black woman to star as the title character in the musical Cinderella on Broadway
Who is Keke Palmer?
Calculated trajectories for space flights with NASA, and assisted the first U.S crewed space mission and the Apollo 11 moon landing
Who is Katherine Johnson?
Author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and a major motion picture staring Amanda Stenberg for her debut novel, The Hate U Give
Who is Angie Thomas?
The first African-American First Lady of the United States
Who is Michelle Obama?
The first tennis player to win more than 23 Grand Slam singles titles in the open era. She went on to earn the largest amount ever earned by any female tennis player
Who is Serena Williams?
The first and only Black woman to be cast in the role of Belle in the Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast in 1998
Who is Toni Braxton?
An African American woman whose geological work developed GPS technology
Who is Gladys West?
American poet, memoirist,, and civil rights activist who worked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X, most famously known for her work, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Who is Maya Angelou?
The first Black female millionaire
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
The first WNBA player to score 1,000 points in a season
The first and only Black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress (2002)
An African American woman who was the founder of "Black Girls Code", a nonprofit organization that empowered young girls of color to learn coding and programming
Who is Kimberly Bryant?
World-renowned poet and one of the foremost authors of the Black Arts Movement, and taught at many universities, most recently at Virginia Tech as a University Distinguished Professor
Who is Nikki Giovanni?
The first Black woman to fly a plane
Who is Bessie Coleman?
The first Black woman to win the James E. Sullivan Award, America’s highest honor in amateur athletics (1961)
Who is Wilma Rudolph?
The first and only African American to reach EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, & Tony) status
Who is Whoopi Goldberg?
The first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D from MIT in any field
Who is Shirley Ann Jackson?
Self-described “black-lesbian feminist mother lover poet” that exposed and condemned the social wrongs of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia
The first Black woman to publish a book
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
The first Black Woman to medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in 35 years
Who is Starr Andrews?
The first African-American to be nominated and win an Oscar during the 12th Annual Academy Awards in 1940
The first Black woman to become a neurosurgeon in the U.S.
Who is Alexa Canady?
Writer and playwright to become the first Black woman author ever to have a play performed on Broadway, A Raisin in the Sun
The first Black woman to get a college degree
Who is Mary Ann Shadd Cary?