by Carol Sue Janes | Mar 9, 2021 | African American History, People
Jamila Taylor represents Washington State’s 30th Legislative District, which includes the cities of Federal Way, Des Moines, Auburn, Algona, Pacific, and Milton, as well as unincorporated parts of King County and a small part of Pierce County. Taylor, a Democrat, was...
by WashingtonKC | Jan 7, 2021 | African American History, People
Nikema Williams is the first Black chairwoman of the Georgia Democratic Party, a former state senator, and the first woman to serve as representative of Georgia’s 5th Congressional District, filling the seat held since 1987 by the late civil rights icon John...
by BrackNaomii | Sep 28, 2020 | African American History, People
Juliana (Wiggins) Stratton is a lawyer and politician serving as the 48th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois. Stratton was born on the South Side of Chicago on September 8, 1965 and raised there. She is a graduate of Kenwood Academy High School and then attended the...
by FikesRobert | Aug 29, 2020 | Global African History, People
Few in the audience that began watching the 2019 Miss Universe Ireland Contest could have predicted that the winner, Fionnghuala O’Reilly, would not only be of African descent but also had arrived far from the shores of the Emerald Isle. Born August 20, 1993 in the...
by BrackNaomii | Aug 17, 2020 | African American History, People
Leah J. Ward Sears is a retired Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. Sears served on the court from 1992 until June 2009. Appointed by Governor Zell Miller in 1992, Sears became the first African American woman chief justice of any state’s highest appellate...
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