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First Black African person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature [4] 1988 Naguib Mahfouz Egypt: First Egyptian and North African to win a Nobel Prize in Literature: 1991 Nadine Gordimer South Africa: First White African woman to win a Nobel Prize 1993 Nelson Mandela: Peace: 1993 F. W. de Klerk: 1997 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji France (born in ...
South Africa: First black African to win a Nobel Prize 1964 Martin Luther King Jr. United States: Youngest African American to win a Nobel Prize, at age 35 1984 Desmond Tutu South Africa: 1993 Nelson Mandela South Africa: 2001 Kofi Annan Ghana: 2004 Wangari Maathai Kenya: First environmentalist to win the Nobel Peace Prize 2009 Barack Obama
First African to be nominated for an Academy Award in any category. 1967: Cecil Kellaway: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Monsignor Mike Ryan Nominated 2003: Djimon Hounsou: In America: Mateo Nominated First Black African to be nominated for an acting award. 2006: Blood Diamond: Solomon Vandy Nominated 2013: Barkhad Abdi: Captain Phillips ...
The BET Honors, which celebrates the lives and achievements of African American luminaries. Coretta Scott King Award (annual literary award from the American Library Association given to African American authors and illustrators) Golden Eagle Award, Afro-American in the Arts; Black Movie Awards; Essence Literary Awards (defunct) Glyph Comics Awards
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002. A similar book was written by Columbus Salley.
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.
10 of Obama's greatest accomplishments. Bell Johnson. ... He urged states in 2013 to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. Since then 18 states and Washington, D.C. have responded. 5.
Africa Elephant Award by the Africa Scout Region [67] Zoologists Brent E. Hendrixson and Jason E. Bond named a South African species of trapdoor spider in the family Ctenizidae as Stasimopus mandelai, "honouring Nelson Mandela, the former president of South Africa and one of the great moral leaders of our time." [68]