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Chosen Generation Chronicle
Recent Black History & Olympic Black History Facts
6 Black Fortune 500 CEOs
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Kenneth C. Frazier – Merck & Co.
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Roger Ferguson – TIAA-CREF
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Kenneth I. Chenault – American
Winter Olympics
Vonetta Davis
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Express
1st Black Athlete to win Gold- Bobsled
Shani Davis –
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1st Black to win a gold medal in an
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Don Thompson – McDonald’s
individual sport (1000m speed skating,
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Ursula M. Burns – Xerox
2006)
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Clarence Otis Jr. – Darden
Restaurants
John Thompson named President,
USA Women bobsledders – 5 of 6 are Black
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Former track athletes turned bobsledders
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Lauryn Williams, Lolo Jones, Aja Evans,
Microsoft Board of Directors
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HBCU Graduate (Florida A&M)
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Jazmine Fenlator, Elana Myers
2nd Chairman, Succeeds Bill Gates,
& 1st Minority to hold this position
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Elana Myers & Lauryn Williams receive
Silver Medal by .1 second
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Aja Evans receive bronze medal