African Descent Archives - Infinite Women

Allyson Felix

Olympic champion track and field athlete

Kihana Wilson

American astrophysicist and writer

Lt. Commander Brenda Robinson

Lt. Cmdr. Brenda Robinson became the first Black woman to become a U.S. Navy naval aviator when she earned her Wings of Gold in 1980.

Beulah Lee Sampson Flowers

Beulah Lee Sampson Flowers was an African-American educator, community leader, political activist, and businesswoman who was also a mentor to Maya Angelou.

Rose Marie McCoy

Rose Marie Hinton McCoy broke into the white, male-dominated music business in the early 1950s to become a highly sought-after songwriter whose career lasted over six decades.

Dr Chisaraokwu Asomugha

Chisaraokwu Asomugha is a Los Angeles-based Igbo American transdisciplinary poet, writer, visual/performance artist, scholar, and health futurist

Amy Jacques Garvey

Jamaican journalist and activist

Florence Griffith Joyner

Florence Griffith Joyner, better known as Flo Jo, was one of the fastest women in the world in the 1980s, and she had the medals and records to prove it.

In April 1912, a young Black woman named Clementine Barnabet confessed to murdering four families in and around Lafayette, Louisiana. Her confession, however, did not align with the timeline of crimes that had gripped America’s rice belt region with fear.

Amy Ashwood Garvey

Jamaican activist, co-founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), which was the most influential anti-colonial organisation in Jamaica for decades. Co-founder of the international Negro World newspaper, and one of the first directors of UNIA’s shipping line, the Black Star Line.