Canada
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Legend:
A = African, AA = American Born, AD = African descent, C = Caribbean, CE = Caribbean-European Descent, GD = Ghanaian descent, GrD = Grenadian descent, HD = Haitian Descent, JD = Jamaican descent, JG = Jamaican-Nigerian descent, TD = Trinidadian descent
Topics
Civil Rights & Social Activism
Educator
- C – Dr. Avis Glaze
- Sophia B. Jones – Physician & Educator
- Wanda Robson – (Community Educator & Author)
Entertainment
- JG – Oluniké Adeliyi – (Actress)
- C – Lillian Allen
- AD – Ruth B [Ruth Berhe] – (Singer & Songwriter)
- Measha Brueggergosman (Soprano)
- Stella Meghie – (Film Director and Screenwriter)
- C – Michie Mee – (Rapper & Actress)
- AA – Juliette Powell – (Television Host, Producer & Author)
- Gloria Reuben – (Actress, Producer, & Singer)
- Kim Richardson – (singer & actress)
- JD – Karen Robinson – (film, television & Stage Actress)
- Donna-Michelle St. Bernard (Playwright & Theater Director)
- CE – Tasha the Amazon – (Rapper)
- Tamara Taylor – (Actress)
- Vanity (Singer)
- Portia White – ( Operatic Contralto)
- C – d'bi Young – (Dub poetry)
- Black Canadian actresses – Wikipedia List
Entrepreneur
Fashion & Models
- A – Catherine Addai – (Designer)
- Vanessa Craft – (Editor Fashion Magazine )
- AD – Grace Mahary – (Model)
- Lana Ogilvie – (Model)
- Gersha Phillips – (Costume Designer)
Filmmaker
Historical Figures
Journalist
Lawyers & Judges
- Violet King – (First Black female lawyer in Canada)
- Micheline A. Rawlins – (Lawyer & Judge) – [first black woman appointed to the Ontario Court of Justice]
Literature
- JD – Trey Anthony (Playwright)
- C – Dionne Brand (Poet & Novelist)
- AD – Esi Edugyan (Novelist)
- C– Kayla Perrin – (Romance Novelist)
- C – Althea Prince (Author, Editor & Professor)
- Mairuth Hodge Sarsfield – (Author, Activist Journalist, & Television Personality)
- C – Makeda Silvera – (Novelist & Short Story Writer)
Medicine
Politics
- Zanana Akande
- Yvonne Atwell
- Jean Augustine
- Rosemary Brown
- Mitzie Hunter
- C – Michaëlle Jean – (27th Governor General)
- Brenda Paris
Public Speaker
Publisher
Religion
Sports
- HD – Jennifer Abel – (Diving)
- GD – Ohenewa Akuffo – (Free Style Wrestler)
- GrD – Phylicia George – (Track & Field)
- Angela James (Hockey)
- Kia Nurse – (Basketball)
- C – Angella Taylor-Issajenko – (Coach & Former Sprinter)
STEM