Inventors
Now 35 years old, she wrote Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's version of the Green New Deal.
Who is Rhiana Gunn-Wright?
She directed Selma and A Wrinkle in Time.
Who is Ava DuVernay?
Francia Marquez is the first Black woman Vice President of this South American country known for its coffee.
What is Colombia?
She supports the Boys & Girls Club of Miami-Dade, her district. She wears hats!
Who is Fredericka Wilson?
She recited one of her poems at the inauguration of President Biden.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
This African-American woman invented the Global Positioning System and satellite geodesy.
Who is Dr. Gladys West?
This child actress from Blackish, now 18, is the youngest person ever to produce a studio film.
Who is Marsai Martin?
She was the first Black female U.S. Senator, and then the ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa.
Who is Carol Moseley Braun?
She traveled from her Boston home to speak at the March on Washington.
Who is Ayanna Pressley?
He wrote several books, one of which is titled Why We Can't Wait.
Who was the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King?
She invented and sold haircare products, became a millionaire, and owned and drove an electric car.
Who was Madame C. J. Walker?
This actress produced and starred in Beloved, and opened a school in South Africa.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
She was the first African-American woman to run for president of the United States of America.
Who was Shirley Chisolm?
She grew up in East Africa, lives in Minnesota, and has traveled to Asia.
Who is Ilhan Omar?
He gave the four speeches in the book The End of White Supremacy.
Who was Malcolm X?
He invented a portable electric car battery charger. 2 sharks on Shark Tank told him YES.
Who is Joshua Aviv?
AP cropped this Ugandan climate activist out of a photo with Greta Thunberg & 3 white activists.
Who is Vanessa Nakate?
This former congresswoman is now the mayor of the largest city in California.
Who is Karen Bass?
He wrote The Trials of Phillis Wheatley.
Who is Henry Louis Gates, Jr.?
She invented a soccer ball that doubles as a source of light for reading.
Who is Jessica O. Matthews?
She taught philosophy at UCLA. At age 25, Princeton Univ. and Swarthmore College had tried to recruit her.
Who is Angela Davis?
This congresswoman has served Los Angeles since 1991.
Who is Maxine Waters?
She wrote and published poems and met the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
Who was Phillis Wheatley?