Black History Everyday

Bell hooks, aka Gloria Jean Watkins 1952-2021 author, professor, and activist.

Suzan-Lori Parks born 1963. First Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2002.

Keechant Sewell born 1972 in 2021 became the first Black woman police chief in the New York Police Department’s 176 year history.

Susan Hutson first Black woman to be sheriff of Orleans parish in Louisiana, 2021.

The Bahamas: known officially as the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. Capital city Nassau.

Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 –December 15, 2021), aka bell hooks, Author, feminist, and professor.