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Shonda Rhimes is the first Black woman to create and produce a top 10 network series with "Grey's Anatomy". She recently signed a multiyear $150 million deal with Netflix, making her production company, Shondaland a force to be reckoned with.
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In 1986, Winfrey became the first Black female host of a nationally syndicated daily talk show with the premiere of The Oprah Winfrey Show. She was named the first recipient of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Bob Hope Humanitarian Award in 2002.
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Lowe designed the wedding dress of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the bride of future President John F. Kennedy.
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The "Queen of Funk Soul," is known for singing the theme song to the public television's popular educational program Reading Rainbow.
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Ailey founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1958. He also created the affiliated Ailey School, which served as a haven for up-and-coming Black artists.
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Johnson, nicknamed "the Galveston Giant," was the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion. He also patented a wrench in 1922.
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Taylor was the first African-American to win an Olympic gold medal.
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Thomas patented the illusion transmitter in 1980. She also developed real-time computer data systems to support satellite control centers and oversaw the creation of the NASA Landsat program that spearheaded some of the first image transmissions from space.
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In 2021, Chaka made history as the first Black woman to officiate an NFL game.
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The 6888th Battalion was an all-Black, all-female unit of the military that delivered mail to World War II troops across England.
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The ban on interracial marriage in the U.S. was overturned because of the couple in 1967.
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Baker left the United States in 1937 and renounced her citizenship. During her travels across Europe, she would conceal messages in her costumes and would eavesdrop at embassy events.
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Although Douglass was born free and that she took care of people fleeing on the Underground Railroad. She helped Frederick Bailey to escape, married him, and together with her husband took the last name Douglass. They remained married for 44 years until her death.
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Sampson created the world’s very first cell phone in 1971. He was also the first African American student to earn a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering in the United States, from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1967.
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In 1964, Poitier was the first Black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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McDaniel was the first African American performer to win an Academy Award for her portrayal of a loyal slave governess in Gone With the Wind.
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Wonder was the first Black artist to win a Grammy for Album of the Year, for 1973’s Innervisions. Additionally, he is the first and only musician to win Album of the Year with three consecutive studio albums.
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Cole was the first Black American to host a TV show: NBC’s The Nat King Cole Show.
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Johnson is the founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), and the first African American majority owner of a major professional sports team in the United States. In 2001, he became the first Black billionaire. after selling BET.
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Revels became the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate in 1870.
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Robinson produced the first-ever commercially successful rap record: “Rapper’s Delight,” by the Sugar Hill Gang.
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Burke conceptualized the "Me Too" in 2006 as a way for victims of sexual violence to share their stories and connect.
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Shell became the first Black head coach in modern NFL history. In 1989, two months after his induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a player, Shell took over the head coaching job of the Los Angeles Raiders.
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In 2015, Coates won the National Book Award for “Between the World and Me.” He’s also written a string of Black Panther and Captain America comics for Marvel Comics.
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“The Bible tells us that those who fought for justice—those who spoke truth to power, those who refused to accept that injustice and inequality had to exist and that there was no better way—always found themselves hated, hounded, and heaped upon with false accusations simply because they believed in the necessity of speaking and working for the cause of righteousness and building a more just community.” Barber was a keynote speaker at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
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