Benjamin O. Davis Sr. (1st Black American military general) John Coltrane (musician) Bayard Rustin (Civil Rights activist) L. Londell McMillan (NorthStar Group publisher) Billie Holliday (singer) Dr. Carter G. Woodson Charles Wade (co- founded Operation Help H.E.R. (musician) Big Mama Thornton (singer) Dr. Patricia Bath (doctor and inventor of laser cataract surgery) Jessie Jackson Missy Elliot (musician) Nipsey Hussle (rapper) Sean “P Diddy” Combs (entrepreneur, designer, and rapper) Marie Van Brittan Brown (security system inventor) Sojourner Truth (activist) The Weeknd (musician) Loius Armstrong (musician) Alicia Boler Davis (VP Global Customer Fulfillment at Amazon) Michael Jordon Opal Tometi (Black Lives Matter founder) Beyoncé Knowles- Carter (singer and songwriter) Tiger Woods Condoleezza Rice (politician) David A. Fisher Ella Fitzgerald (singer) Nat King Cole Muhammad Ali Jesse Collins (super bowl producer) Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1st Black female doctor in the U.S.) Josephine Baker (the first Black woman to be inducted into France’s Pantheon) Trina Parks (singer and actress) Clarence Thomas- Supreme Court Justice James Meredith Prince (musician) Barack Obama (U.S. President) Aisha “Pinky” Cole (plant- based restauranteur) Wilma Rudolph Thurgood Marshall Marvin Gaye (singer) Alvin Ailey (performance artist) Joe Louis Jason Wright (NFL president Web Dubois Jane Bolin (1st Black female judge in the U.S.) Ryan Williams (Cadre CEO) Stacey Abrams (politician) Thomas L. Jennings (dry cleaning inventor) James C. Evans William A. Deltz Alice Ball (chemist) Rhianna (singer and designer) Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett (infectious diseases scientist behind COVID- vaccine) Madame CJ Walker Tourmaline (activist and filmmaker) Michael Jackson (singer) Ritchie Torres (politician) Sarah E. Goode Frederick Jones (inventor of refrigeration) Althea Gibson Robert F. Smith (Chair of Vista Equity Partners) Thurgood Marshall- Supreme Court Justice Louis W. Freeman "Little Rock Nine" Rosa Parks (Civil Rights activist) Queen Latifah (musician and actress) Martin Luther King Jr. (Civil Rights leader) Jim Crow Laws Sojourner Truth Rashida Jones (MSNBC president) Plessy v. Ferguson Melody Hobson (Starbucks board chair) Frederick Douglass Ella Baker (Civil Rights activist) Halle Berry Hariet Tubman Sarah Boone (ironing board inventor) Otis Boykin (electrical engineer and pacemaker inventor) Claudette Colvin (Civil Rights activist) Ermias Tadesse (BlackGen Capital co- founder) Patrisse Cullors (Black Lives Matter (BLM) founder) Phylicia Rashad (singer and actress) Sylvester J. Fletcher Jackie Joyner Tony Elumelu (entrepreneur and chair of Heirs Holdings) Bessie Coleman (1st African American aviator with a pilot’s license) Maya Angelou Muhammad Ali Cynt Marshall (NBA’s 1st Black female CEO) Tina Turner (singer) Jackie Robinson Aretha Franklin (singer) LL Cool J (rapper) Nina Simone (musician) Lionel Ritchie (musician) Aicha Evans (CEO at Zoox) Elijah McCoy (steam engine lubrication inventor with 57 U.S. patents) Loretta Lynch (1st Black woman attorney general of the U.S.) Jackie Robinson George Washington Carver (scientist) Dana Canedy (Simon & Schuster publishing executive) Shirley Chisholm (1st Black woman elected to Congress) Malcolm X (Civil Rights leader) Robert L. Johnson (co- founder of BET (acquired by Viacom in 2001)) Bob Marley (musician) John H. Evans Medgar Evers (Civil Rights activist) Jessie Owens Ice Cube (rapper) Gordon Parks (photographer and film director) Harriet Tubman Neil deGrasse Tyson (astrophysicist and planetary scientist) Muddy Water (singer) Alicia Keys (singer) Robert Sengstacke Abbott (founder of the Chicago Defender) Marsha P. Johnson (Black LGBTQ activist) Cori Bush (congresswoman) Nia DaCosta (director) Patti Labelle (singer) Angela Davis (political activist) Ledisi (musician) Taran Burke (#MeToo activist) Rosa Parks Bessie Coleman Porter Braswell (Jopwell co- founder) Duke Ellington Bozoma Saint John (Netflix Chief Marketing Officer) Arthur Ashe Mae Jemison (1st African American in space) Berry Gordy, Jr. Stevie Wonder (musician) Susan Rice (diplomat and politician) Victor J. Glover (astronaut and pilot of SpaceX Crew Dragon) Hattie McDaniel Kamala Harris (Vice President of the United States) Dianna Ross (singer) Joe Louis Robert F. Flemmings Jr. Snoop Dog (rapper) Whitney Houston (singer) Cleo Wade (artist and poet) Gwendolyn Brooks Rosalind Brewer (Walgreen’s CEO) Jennifer Hudson (singer) Dorothy Height (YWCA Leader & the “godmother of the women’s movement”) Emancipation Proclamation Charles Q. Brown Jr. (U.S. Commanding Officer) Langston Hughes Marian Anderson (singer) Amy Sherald (painter) Abubacarr Tambadou (politician) Alice H. Parker (gas furnace inventor) Jean-Jacques Muyembe- Tamfum (Ebola researcher and microbiologist) Jackie Robinson The Greensboro Four Cheick Camara (BlackGen Capital co- founder) Janet Jackson (singer) Marian Anderson Dan Peebles (Black developer who aims to build New York’s tallest skyscraper) Octavia V. Catto (activist) James Brown (singer) Kareem Abdul Brandy (actress and singer) Toni Morrison Sugar Ray Leonard Annie Lee Cooper (voting rights activist) James Forten (inventor of ship sails) Ray Charles (musician) Minnie Riperton (singer) Oprah Winfrey Rachael Rollins (US attorney for Massachusetts, the first Black woman to hold the office in state history) Samuel T. Crawford Reggie Jackson William D. Davis Alicia Garza (Black Lives Matter founder) Shelia Johnson (founder of Black Entertainment Television) Benjamin O. Davis Sr. (1st Black American military general) John Coltrane (musician) Bayard Rustin (Civil Rights activist) L. Londell McMillan (NorthStar Group publisher) Billie Holliday (singer) Dr. Carter G. Woodson Charles Wade (co- founded Operation Help H.E.R. (musician) Big Mama Thornton (singer) Dr. Patricia Bath (doctor and inventor of laser cataract surgery) Jessie Jackson Missy Elliot (musician) Nipsey Hussle (rapper) Sean “P Diddy” Combs (entrepreneur, designer, and rapper) Marie Van Brittan Brown (security system inventor) Sojourner Truth (activist) The Weeknd (musician) Loius Armstrong (musician) Alicia Boler Davis (VP Global Customer Fulfillment at Amazon) Michael Jordon Opal Tometi (Black Lives Matter founder) Beyoncé Knowles- Carter (singer and songwriter) Tiger Woods Condoleezza Rice (politician) David A. Fisher Ella Fitzgerald (singer) Nat King Cole Muhammad Ali Jesse Collins (super bowl producer) Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1st Black female doctor in the U.S.) Josephine Baker (the first Black woman to be inducted into France’s Pantheon) Trina Parks (singer and actress) Clarence Thomas- Supreme Court Justice James Meredith Prince (musician) Barack Obama (U.S. President) Aisha “Pinky” Cole (plant- based restauranteur) Wilma Rudolph Thurgood Marshall Marvin Gaye (singer) Alvin Ailey (performance artist) Joe Louis Jason Wright (NFL president Web Dubois Jane Bolin (1st Black female judge in the U.S.) Ryan Williams (Cadre CEO) Stacey Abrams (politician) Thomas L. Jennings (dry cleaning inventor) James C. Evans William A. Deltz Alice Ball (chemist) Rhianna (singer and designer) Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett (infectious diseases scientist behind COVID- vaccine) Madame CJ Walker Tourmaline (activist and filmmaker) Michael Jackson (singer) Ritchie Torres (politician) Sarah E. Goode Frederick Jones (inventor of refrigeration) Althea Gibson Robert F. Smith (Chair of Vista Equity Partners) Thurgood Marshall- Supreme Court Justice Louis W. Freeman "Little Rock Nine" Rosa Parks (Civil Rights activist) Queen Latifah (musician and actress) Martin Luther King Jr. (Civil Rights leader) Jim Crow Laws Sojourner Truth Rashida Jones (MSNBC president) Plessy v. Ferguson Melody Hobson (Starbucks board chair) Frederick Douglass Ella Baker (Civil Rights activist) Halle Berry Hariet Tubman Sarah Boone (ironing board inventor) Otis Boykin (electrical engineer and pacemaker inventor) Claudette Colvin (Civil Rights activist) Ermias Tadesse (BlackGen Capital co- founder) Patrisse Cullors (Black Lives Matter (BLM) founder) Phylicia Rashad (singer and actress) Sylvester J. Fletcher Jackie Joyner Tony Elumelu (entrepreneur and chair of Heirs Holdings) Bessie Coleman (1st African American aviator with a pilot’s license) Maya Angelou Muhammad Ali Cynt Marshall (NBA’s 1st Black female CEO) Tina Turner (singer) Jackie Robinson Aretha Franklin (singer) LL Cool J (rapper) Nina Simone (musician) Lionel Ritchie (musician) Aicha Evans (CEO at Zoox) Elijah McCoy (steam engine lubrication inventor with 57 U.S. patents) Loretta Lynch (1st Black woman attorney general of the U.S.) Jackie Robinson George Washington Carver (scientist) Dana Canedy (Simon & Schuster publishing executive) Shirley Chisholm (1st Black woman elected to Congress) Malcolm X (Civil Rights leader) Robert L. Johnson (co- founder of BET (acquired by Viacom in 2001)) Bob Marley (musician) John H. Evans Medgar Evers (Civil Rights activist) Jessie Owens Ice Cube (rapper) Gordon Parks (photographer and film director) Harriet Tubman Neil deGrasse Tyson (astrophysicist and planetary scientist) Muddy Water (singer) Alicia Keys (singer) Robert Sengstacke Abbott (founder of the Chicago Defender) Marsha P. Johnson (Black LGBTQ activist) Cori Bush (congresswoman) Nia DaCosta (director) Patti Labelle (singer) Angela Davis (political activist) Ledisi (musician) Taran Burke (#MeToo activist) Rosa Parks Bessie Coleman Porter Braswell (Jopwell co- founder) Duke Ellington Bozoma Saint John (Netflix Chief Marketing Officer) Arthur Ashe Mae Jemison (1st African American in space) Berry Gordy, Jr. Stevie Wonder (musician) Susan Rice (diplomat and politician) Victor J. Glover (astronaut and pilot of SpaceX Crew Dragon) Hattie McDaniel Kamala Harris (Vice President of the United States) Dianna Ross (singer) Joe Louis Robert F. Flemmings Jr. Snoop Dog (rapper) Whitney Houston (singer) Cleo Wade (artist and poet) Gwendolyn Brooks Rosalind Brewer (Walgreen’s CEO) Jennifer Hudson (singer) Dorothy Height (YWCA Leader & the “godmother of the women’s movement”) Emancipation Proclamation Charles Q. Brown Jr. (U.S. Commanding Officer) Langston Hughes Marian Anderson (singer) Amy Sherald (painter) Abubacarr Tambadou (politician) Alice H. Parker (gas furnace inventor) Jean-Jacques Muyembe- Tamfum (Ebola researcher and microbiologist) Jackie Robinson The Greensboro Four Cheick Camara (BlackGen Capital co- founder) Janet Jackson (singer) Marian Anderson Dan Peebles (Black developer who aims to build New York’s tallest skyscraper) Octavia V. Catto (activist) James Brown (singer) Kareem Abdul Brandy (actress and singer) Toni Morrison Sugar Ray Leonard Annie Lee Cooper (voting rights activist) James Forten (inventor of ship sails) Ray Charles (musician) Minnie Riperton (singer) Oprah Winfrey Rachael Rollins (US attorney for Massachusetts, the first Black woman to hold the office in state history) Samuel T. Crawford Reggie Jackson William D. Davis Alicia Garza (Black Lives Matter founder) Shelia Johnson (founder of Black Entertainment Television)
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Benjamin O. Davis Sr. (1st Black American military general)
John Coltrane (musician)
Bayard Rustin (Civil Rights activist)
L. Londell McMillan (NorthStar Group publisher)
Billie Holliday (singer)
Dr. Carter G. Woodson
Charles Wade (co-founded Operation Help
H.E.R. (musician)
Big Mama Thornton (singer)
Dr. Patricia Bath (doctor and inventor of laser cataract surgery)
Jessie Jackson
Missy Elliot (musician)
Nipsey Hussle (rapper)
Sean “P Diddy” Combs (entrepreneur, designer, and rapper)
Marie Van Brittan Brown (security system inventor)
Sojourner Truth (activist)
The Weeknd (musician)
Loius Armstrong (musician)
Alicia Boler Davis (VP Global Customer Fulfillment at Amazon)
Michael Jordon
Opal Tometi (Black Lives Matter founder)
Beyoncé Knowles-Carter (singer and songwriter)
Tiger Woods
Condoleezza Rice (politician)
David A. Fisher
Ella Fitzgerald (singer)
Nat King Cole
Muhammad Ali
Jesse Collins (super bowl producer)
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1st Black female doctor in the U.S.)
Josephine Baker (the first Black woman to be inducted into France’s Pantheon)
Trina Parks (singer and actress)
Clarence Thomas-Supreme Court Justice
James Meredith
Prince (musician)
Barack Obama (U.S. President)
Aisha “Pinky” Cole (plant-based restauranteur)
Wilma Rudolph
Thurgood Marshall
Marvin Gaye (singer)
Alvin Ailey (performance artist)
Joe Louis
Jason Wright (NFL president
Web Dubois
Jane Bolin (1st Black female judge in the U.S.)
Ryan Williams (Cadre CEO)
Stacey Abrams (politician)
Thomas L. Jennings (dry cleaning inventor)
James C. Evans
William A. Deltz
Alice Ball (chemist)
Rhianna (singer and designer)
Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett (infectious diseases scientist behind COVID-vaccine)
Madame CJ Walker
Tourmaline (activist and filmmaker)
Michael Jackson (singer)
Ritchie Torres (politician)
Sarah E. Goode
Frederick Jones (inventor of refrigeration)
Althea Gibson
Robert F. Smith (Chair of Vista Equity Partners)
Thurgood Marshall- Supreme Court Justice
Louis W. Freeman
"Little Rock Nine"
Rosa Parks (Civil Rights activist)
Queen Latifah (musician and actress)
Martin Luther King Jr. (Civil Rights leader)
Jim Crow Laws
Sojourner Truth
Rashida Jones (MSNBC president)
Plessy v. Ferguson
Melody Hobson (Starbucks board chair)
Frederick Douglass
Ella Baker (Civil Rights activist)
Halle Berry
Hariet Tubman
Sarah Boone (ironing board inventor)
Otis Boykin (electrical engineer and pacemaker inventor)
Claudette Colvin (Civil Rights activist)
Ermias Tadesse (BlackGen Capital co-founder)
Patrisse Cullors (Black Lives Matter (BLM) founder)
Phylicia Rashad (singer and actress)
Sylvester J. Fletcher
Jackie Joyner
Tony Elumelu (entrepreneur and chair of Heirs Holdings)
Bessie Coleman (1st African American aviator with a pilot’s license)
Maya Angelou
Muhammad Ali
Cynt Marshall (NBA’s 1st Black female CEO)
Tina Turner (singer)
Jackie Robinson
Aretha Franklin (singer)
LL Cool J (rapper)
Nina Simone (musician)
Lionel Ritchie (musician)
Aicha Evans (CEO at Zoox)
Elijah McCoy (steam engine lubrication inventor with 57 U.S. patents)
Loretta Lynch (1st Black woman attorney general of the U.S.)
Jackie Robinson
George Washington Carver (scientist)
Dana Canedy (Simon & Schuster publishing executive)
Shirley Chisholm (1st Black woman elected to Congress)
Malcolm X (Civil Rights leader)
Robert L. Johnson (co-founder of BET (acquired by Viacom in 2001))
Bob Marley (musician)
John H. Evans
Medgar Evers (Civil Rights activist)
Jessie Owens
Ice Cube (rapper)
Gordon Parks (photographer and film director)
Harriet Tubman
Neil deGrasse Tyson (astrophysicist and planetary scientist)
Muddy Water (singer)
Alicia Keys (singer)
Robert Sengstacke Abbott (founder of the Chicago Defender)
Marsha P. Johnson (Black LGBTQ activist)
Cori Bush (congresswoman)
Nia DaCosta (director)
Patti Labelle (singer)
Angela Davis (political activist)
Ledisi (musician)
Taran Burke (#MeToo activist)
Rosa Parks
Bessie Coleman
Porter Braswell (Jopwell co-founder)
Duke Ellington
Bozoma Saint John (Netflix Chief Marketing Officer)
Arthur Ashe
Mae Jemison (1st African American in space)
Berry Gordy, Jr.
Stevie Wonder (musician)
Susan Rice (diplomat and politician)
Victor J. Glover (astronaut and pilot of SpaceX Crew Dragon)
Hattie McDaniel
Kamala Harris (Vice President of the United States)
Dianna Ross (singer)
Joe Louis
Robert F. Flemmings Jr.
Snoop Dog (rapper)
Whitney Houston (singer)
Cleo Wade (artist and poet)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Rosalind Brewer (Walgreen’s CEO)
Jennifer Hudson (singer)
Dorothy Height (YWCA Leader & the “godmother of the women’s movement”)
Emancipation Proclamation
Charles Q. Brown Jr. (U.S. Commanding Officer)
Langston Hughes
Marian Anderson (singer)
Amy Sherald (painter)
Abubacarr Tambadou (politician)
Alice H. Parker (gas furnace inventor)
Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum (Ebola researcher and microbiologist)
Jackie Robinson
The Greensboro Four
Cheick Camara (BlackGen Capital co-founder)
Janet Jackson (singer)
Marian Anderson
Dan Peebles (Black developer who aims to build New York’s tallest skyscraper)
Octavia V. Catto (activist)
James Brown (singer)
Kareem Abdul
Brandy (actress and singer)
Toni Morrison
Sugar Ray Leonard
Annie Lee Cooper (voting rights activist)
James Forten (inventor of ship sails)
Ray Charles (musician)
Minnie Riperton (singer)
Oprah Winfrey
Rachael Rollins (US attorney for Massachusetts, the first Black woman to hold the office in state history)
Samuel T. Crawford
Reggie Jackson
William D. Davis
Alicia Garza (Black Lives Matter founder)
Shelia Johnson (founder of Black Entertainment Television)
