Olga Bourlin
Olga Bourlin is editor of The Human Prospect, a journal published by the Institute for Science and Human Values. Having grown up in China and Brazil before emigrating to the United States at age 9 has given her an abiding love of history and a relentless curiosity about cultures around the world. Her Bachelor of Science degree is from San Francisco State University. She has written for Free Inquiry, Apogee, The Secular Humanist Press, and The Examiner (the newsletter for African Americans for Humanism (AAH)). A lifelong reader and big fan of the First Amendment, Olga was a co-founder and co-chair of the Northwest Feminist Anti-Censorship Taskforce.
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Dorothy Leigh Maynor (1910-1996)
Dorothy Leigh Maynor was an international concert soprano, founder of the Harlem School of the Arts, the first African American...
Norman Robert Allen, Jr. (1957- )
Norman (Norm) Robert Allen Jr. is a writer and secular humanist activist. On August 31, 1989 Allen founded African Americans...
Anne Raven Wilkinson (1935-2018)
In August 1955 at the age of 20, Raven Wilkinson became the first African American woman to receive a contract...
Robert Keith McFerrin, Sr. (1921-2006)
In 1953 baritone Robert McFerrin Sr. made history as the first African American to win the Metropolitan Opera House’s Auditions...
Lauren Anderson (1965- )
When Lauren Anderson was promoted to principal dancer with the Houston Ballet in 1990, she became the first female African...
Aesha Ash (1977- )
Born in Rochester, New York, on December 30, 1977 to Costello and John Ash, Aesha Ash grew up in a...
Misty Copeland (1982- )
Misty Copeland is one of only a handful of African American soloist ballerinas in the world. When Copeland was just...
Tai Jimenez (1970- )
Image Ownership: Ernesto Galan (Fair Use) Classically trained ballerina Tai Jimenez freelanced and also performed with the Dance Theatre of...
Louise Jones McKinney (1930-2012)
Louise McKinney (née Jones) was an African-American educator, human rights advocate, philanthropist, business woman, community activist, and patron of the...
Korla Pandit (1921-1998) (aka Redd, John Roland, aka Rolando, Juan)
Korla Pandit, the first African American to have his own television show, was a composer, organist, and pianist who starred...
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (1938- )
When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was inaugurated the 24th president of the Republic of Liberia on January 16, 2006, she became...
Derrick Albert Bell Jr. (1930-2011)
Derrick Bell, legal scholar and teacher, was the first Black law professor at Harvard Law School to achieve tenure and...
