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