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Michelle Marie Colón - first black woman to compete in Miss Universe beauty pageant as Miss Puerto Rico; Celestina Cordero - educator, established the first school for girls in San Juan; Rafael Cordero - known as the "father of public education in Puerto Rico"; self-educated man who provided free schooling to children regardless of race. [14]
Lilia Luciano (born October 12, 1984) is a journalist, filmmaker, podcaster and public speaker born and raised in Puerto Rico. She is currently a national correspondent and anchor at CBS News based in New York [1] and host of the iHeart Radio podcast, El Flow. [2]
First woman in Puerto Rico and in all of Latin America to be elected to a government legislative body. [24] María de Pérez Almiroty, first woman elected to the Senate of Puerto Rico; Sila María Calderón, governor. First woman governor of Puerto Rico, elected in November 2000. She was the former mayor of San Juan. [25]
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This was what winning an Olympic gold medal for Puerto Rico looked like for hurdler Jasmine Camacho-Quinn: Billboards around San Juan featuring only her first name. Now, along with all of that ...
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Alford began her journalism career as a general assignment news reporter at WROC-TV (News 8) in Rochester, New York. In 2016, she joined The Grio as Deputy Editor and was promoted to Vice President of Digital Content in 2019. [7] [8] Alford began appearing regularly on CNN in 2019. [9] In 2020, Alford launched TheGrio's first podcast, Dear Culture.
Eaddy launched Win With Black Women in 2020 to counter racist and sexist attacks against Black women being considered to join Biden’s ticket as Vice President.