Alexis McCray
21st century US Air Force veteran
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Ruth C Isaacs
One of the first African-American Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) to enter Hospital Corps School at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland.
Katherine Horton
One of the first African-American Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) to enter Hospital Corps School at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland.
Inez Patterson
One of the first African-American Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) to enter Hospital Corps School at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland.
Nalo Hopkinson
Jamaican-American Nalo Hopkinson has been writing and publishing speculative fiction since 1995.
Leila Chatti
Leila Chatti is a Tunisian American poet and author of Deluge (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) and the chapbooks Ebb (Akashic Books, 2018) and Tunsiya/Amrikiya, the 2017 Editors’ Selection from Bull City Press.
Jamaica Baldwin
American poet
Alice Evamae Ewing Phillips
Alice Evamae Ewing Phillips served in the US’s Women’s Army Corps during World War II from 1944-1947.
Alison C Rollins
American poet
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
American rock and gospel singer, songwriter and guitarist