21st-century African-American educators

Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president. Obama previously served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.

lawyer and former First Lady of the United States (2009-2017)

American actor, director and acting teacher (1934-2012)

American politician and educator (born 1976)

American opera singer

American politician and educator

American meteorologist

mechanical engineer (1929-2019)

Mayor of Chicago since 2023

American social worker and mother of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex

American singer, actor and director

Nigerian mathematician and historian of mathematics

American director and filmmaker

African-American mathematician

American politician

American activist

American actor

American performance artist, poet, dancer, arts educator and cultural activist.

Illinois lawmaker and educator

American musician (1927-2008)

American schoolteacher (1936-2015)

American civil rights activist

American filmmaker

founder of the National Center of Afro-American Artists and the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts (1921–2004)

American dancer

American lawyer (born 1947)