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This is a list of African-American activists [1] covering various areas of activism, but primarily focused on those African-Americans who historically and currently have been fighting racism and racial injustice against African-Americans.
Overall, 31 of the 50 U.S. states, plus the U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia, have elected an African American to represent them in the U.S. House of Representatives, with Rhode Island being the most recent to elect its first (in 2023); out of these, 23 states, plus U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia, have elected ...
Barack Obama was the first African American and first biracial president of the United States, being elected in the 2008 election and re-elected in the 2012 election. Kamala Harris became the first African-American vice president of the United States of America, being elected in the 2020 election alongside President Joe Biden. She is also the ...
As protests rock the country in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, there is a notable absence in the national public discourse: African American community ...
Ali Alexander (born 1984 or 1986), Social media personality and activist, of African-American and Arab ancestry. Archie Alexander (1888–1958), governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands; Walter G. Alexander (1880–1953), first African-American to serve in the New Jersey Legislature; Aris T. Allen (1910–1991), chair of the Maryland Republican Party
Thurgood Marshall went to Howard University. Marian Wright Edelman attended Spelman College. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. went to Morehouse. America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities...
(Reuters) - * At least 100 members of the last sitting Congress aredirect descendants of ancestors who enslaved Black people,representing at least 8% of Democrats in Congress and 28% ofRepublicans.
In 2014, political activist and women's rights leader Leslie Wimes founded the Democratic African-American Woman's Caucus (DAAWC) in Florida. She enlisted the help of Wendy Sejour and El Portal mayor Daisy Black to help Black women in the state of Florida have a voice. [147]