who was the first african american billionaire
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Forbes rich list: Meet the world's 6 black billionaires In 2001, Robert Johnson became the first African-American to appear on the annual Forbes billionaire list. Johnson secured his billionaire status in the years 2002, 2003, 2007 and 2008, but the dropped off the list again in 2009. Follow Kunbi Tinuoye on Twitter at @Kunbiti.
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- Scottish-American industrialist Andrew Carnegie led the American steel industry at the turn of the century, eventually becoming the richest man in the world. Carnegie then turned around and gave most of his wealth away. Focusing on global education and world peace, Carnegie ultimately donated a staggering $350 million.
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Chuck Cooper (basketball) Charles Henry Chuck Cooper (September 29, 1926 – February 5, 1984) was an American professional basketball player. He and two others, Nat Sweetwater Clifton and Earl Lloyd, became the first African American player in the NBA in 1950. Cooper was also the first African-American to be drafted by an NBA team, as the second pick of the second round by the Boston Celtics.
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Top 20 Richest African Americans in the World Known investors Alphonse Fletcher and Tracy Maitland drop out from the old Forbes list, as does real estate tycoon Herman J. Russell and boxing promoter Don King. Here is a list of the top 20 richest African Americans in the world.
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Robert L. Johnson Biography Synopsis. Robert L. Johnson was born on April 8, 1946, in Hickory, Mississippi. Johnson founded Black Entertainment Television (BET) in 1979 with his wife, Sheila. He became the first African-American billionaire after selling the network to Viacom in 2001.
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- John Mercer Langston was the first black man to become a lawyer in Ohio when he passed the Bar in 1854. When he was elected to the post of Town Clerk for Brownhelm, Ohio in 1855 Langston became one of the first African Americans ever elected to public office in America.
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Who Were the First Black Superheroes? His first issue of Black Panther was one of the highest-selling comic books of 2016. Black Panther and the Fantastic Four . 1969: The Falcon (Sam Wilson)-The Falcon is the first African-American superhero, and the second Black hero in Marvel Comics. Introduced in Captain America #117. The Falcon became Captain America's superhero partner, and shared co-billing on the cover of that a comic book series as Captain America and the Falcon from issues #134-192
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Guion Bluford Guion Stewart Bluford Jr., Ph.D.,, is an American aerospace engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer and fighter pilot, and former NASA astronaut, who was the first African American in space. Before becoming an astronaut, he was an officer in the U.S. Air Force, where he remained while assigned to NASA, rising to the rank of Colonel. He participated in four Space Shuttle flights between 1983 and 1992. In 1983, as a member of the crew of the Orbiter Challenger on the mission STS-8, he became the first African American in space as well as the second person of African ancestry in space, after Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez
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- John H. Johnson Biography. Founder of the Johnson publishing company, John H. Johnson became the first African-American to be named in the Forbes 400. Find out more about him in his brief biography given below. Eunice W. Johnson (m.
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Lyndon B. Johnson In 1965 President Johnson appointed him the first African-American solicitor general of the United States. Marshall made history again in 1967, when he was sworn in as the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court.
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South Africaâs Top Five Wealthiest Blacks 1 Patrice Motsepe, the founder and executive chairman of African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) is often referred to as South Africa’s first black billionaire and the wealthiest black man in South Africa. 2  Motsepe has a net worth of $2.5 billion (R32 billion). Cyril Ramaphosa, Motsepe’s brother-in-law and South Africa’s current deputy president, is the first billionaire deputy president in the post-apartheid South Africa. 2  He is the founder and former executive chairman of Shanduka Group, an investment holding South African firm. 3  His net worth is $550m (R6bn).
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First black player on each MLB team Larry Doby, Cleveland Indians, AL. Larry Doby made his major league debut on July 5, 1947. The first African-American player in the American League, Doby was a power-hitting center fielder and a key member of Cleveland's pennant winners in 1948 and '54.
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Photo Galleries Breaking Barriers: The First African American Players for each MLB Team (18) When he made his Brooklyn Dodgers debut on April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African American to break the Major League Baseball color barrier. He won the Rookie of the Year Award that season, and went on to become the first black MVP in 1949.
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- In 1895, Du Bois became the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in the subject of history from Harvard University. He then studied in Germany but ran out of funds before he could earn a post-doctoral degree.
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- The average cost to paint one wall will fall between $100 and $200; the average cost to paint a ceiling will fall between $150 and $300 -- in both cases, this will depend on the paint selected and the square footage. Return to Top. Accent walls allow a homeowner the chance to experiment with a new color.
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- Obama Makes History. President Barack Obama was elected the first African-American president of the United States on November 5, 2008, transcending centuries of inequality in America.
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Richard Theodore Greener Richard Theodore Greener (January 30, 1844 – May 2, 1922) was the first African-American graduate of Harvard College and dean of the Howard University School of Law.
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A Man of Many Firsts Banneker was among the first Americans, and the first African-American, to publish almanacs , a valuable tool in an agricultural economy. His almanacs were publicly sold from 1792 to 1799, and did quite well. Banneker was the first high profile Black Civil Rights leader .
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The Black Billionaires 2015 The Black Billionaires 2015 Of the 1,826 people who made it to the 2015 FORBES list of the World’s Billionaires, 11 of them are black, up from 9 a year ago. Nigerian cement tycoon Aliko Dangote is still the richest black person in the world, with a fortune estimated at $15.7 billion.
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- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, Jewish-American casino mogul Sheldon Adelson place in top 10 of business magazine's annual round-up of world's richest. Larry Ellison 370. (photo credit:REUTERS/K.C. NEW YORK — Oracle CEO Larry Ellison remains the world’s wealthiest Jew, placing fifth on Forbes magazine’s annual world billionaires list for 2014.
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Black billionaires According to Forbes 2014 ranking of the world's billionaires, Nigerian business magnate Aliko Dangote with a net worth of $25 billion is the world's richest black person.ccording to Forbes 2014 ranking of the world's billionaires, Nigerian business magnate Aliko Dangote with a net worth of $25 billion is the world's richest black person.
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The Rockefellers: The Legacy Of History's Richest Man That young man was John Davison Rockefeller in 1855, who in 25 years would become the wealthiest man of his time, and arguably the wealthiest in history, reigning over a monopoly that refined as much as 90 percent of America’s oil.
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Richest Black Man in the World â Top 10 Billionaire People/Men List 2014 #1) The Richest Black Man in the World – Aliko Dangote. Topping this list is Aliko Dangote. Born in Kano which is in the country of Nigeria, Mr. Dangote is the President and CEO of Dangote Group. He is also the founder of this company.
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Three Black Women Make the 2014 Forbes Billionaires List That brings the total number of women to 172. Forbes counts 1,645 billionaires in the world. From what we can see, less than a handful of Black women made the list including: Oprah $2.9B, Angola's Isabel dos Santos $3.7B, and Nigeria's Folorunsho Alakija $2.5B.
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First African American owners of a professional basketball team First African American owners of a professional basketball team. Bertram M. Lee and Peter C.B. Bynoe sign an agreement to purchase the Denver Nuggets NBA team. They become the first African American owners of a professional basketball team. Send First African American NBA owners to a Friend.
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Granville Woods Granville Tailer Woods (April 23, 1856 – January 30, 1910) was an African-American inventor who held more than 50 patents. He is also the first American of African ancestry to be a mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War. Self-taught, he concentrated most of his work on trains and streetcars.