"The improbable journey that led me to this place in this historic moment in America could only happen here." cat: 'news', tude.refreshAdsViaDivMappings([ { Oldest Living Actors and Celebrities 2023 - IMDb compiled by the Gerontology Research Group. The Adventures of Batman. In 2021, the most-watched TV concert headlined by The Weeknd will have Jesse Collins at the helm, making him the first Black executive producer of the Super Bowl halftime show. A survey published in December by Pew Research Center found that only 42% of Black Americans surveyed said they would get the Covid vaccine, the lowest of any racial or ethnic group. The oldest American resident is listed as Edie Ceccarelli (born in Willits, California, on February 5, 1908), aged 115years, 85days. [52] In 1918, after graduating from Adams High School,[52][53] she responded to government drives to recruit women into employment during WWI, and moved to Washington, D.C.[50] After the war, she worked as a secretary for the Department of the Treasury and the Veterans Administration. "I would compare my job to a student body president at a civilian institution," she tells CNBC Make It, explaining that she oversees roughly 4,000 midshipman at the Naval Academy. She survived living through the 1918 Flu Pandemic and the current 2020 COVID-19) pandemic. [21] Born in London, she emigrated with her family to the United States at the age of 12, settling in Baltimore, Maryland, where she lived for the remainder of her life. Whichever year she was actually born still places her as the oldest person on record living in the United States, based ondatacompiled by the Gerontology Research Group. On Jan. 20, Kamala Harris became the first Black, first South Asian American and first woman Vice President of the United States. "[B]ut Mr. Hargrove's belief in me still continues to resonate with me today and is one of the reasons I chose engineering as a profession." Knowing her dad's experience and the experience of countless other diverse leaders, the 21-year-old says she's "extremely humbled" by her new opportunity and she doesn't take the responsibilities of her role lightly. Nia DaCosta, director of the upcoming "Captain Marvel 2" film. [30] She had four children, but only one of them (a son, Frank) reached adulthood. Roughly 100 million people tune into the Super Bowl and its halftime show in a given year. In the U.S. [37] Benkner survived her sister by only four months, and died at age 114 years and 180 days, after a brief hospital stay in Youngstown, Ohio. Bettie Antry Wilson (ne Rutherford; September 13, 1890 February 13, 2006)[43] was the oldest resident of Mississippi ever recorded, and was considered the oldest living person in the United States from December 2004 until the subsequent verification of Elizabeth Bolden.