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.
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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
Mildred Loving
In Loving v. Virginia, decided on June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down Virginia’s law prohibiting interracial marriages as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Grace Ruo
Kenyan-American poet
Aisha Sabatini Sloan
American essayist and multimedia artist.
Loretta Manggrum
American pianist and composer
Madeline Swegle
Madeline Swegle became the Navy’s first-known African-American woman to become a tactical air pilot when she earned her ‘wings of gold’ in 2020.