Black Leaders Shaping TODAY's HIstory

First South Asian American and first woman Vice President of the United States. 

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Walgreens’ next CEO and only Black woman to currently lead a Fortune 500 firm

• Ursula Burns

• Rosalind Brewer

• Mary Winston

• Kimberly Clark

lead scientist on the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine team

• Rashida Jones

• Dr. Alanis Morissette

• Dr. Amanda Gorman

• Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett

youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history

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MSNBC president and first Black executive to run a major television news network

• Rashida Jones

• Kristen Welker

• Nicolle Wallace

• Taylor Locke

At the age of 23, he became Princeton’s first Black valedictorian

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First Black woman CEO in the NBA

• Lara Price

• Gillian Zucker

• Cynthia “Cynt” Marshall

• Jeanie Buss

The first Black woman named to Amazon’s senior team (the inner circle that advises Jeff Bezos)

• Myrtle Potter

• Christine Beauchamp

• Alicia Boler Davis

• Rosalind Brewer

First Black man to be student body president at Harvard

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At 31, became first Black woman to direct a Marvel film

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