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Queen Latifah
American rapper, singer and actress
Angela Bassett
American actress (born 1958)
Shirley Chisholm
first black woman elected to the United States Congress (1924-2005)
Natalie Cole
American singer (1950–2015)
Cicely Tyson
American actress (1924–2021)
Lena Horne
American singer, actress, dancer and activist (1917–2010)
Roberta Flack
American singer (1937–2025)
Leontyne Price
African-American soprano
Beverly Sills
American operatic soprano (1929-2007)
Ruby Dee
American actress (1922–2014)
Barbara Jordan
American politician (1936-1996)
Carol Moseley Braun
American politician and lawyer
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
American actress
Marcia Fudge
American attorney and politician (born 1952)
Nancy Wilson
American singer (1937–2018)
Danielle Brooks
American actress
Joan Higginbotham
American engineer and NASA astronaut
Mary McLeod Bethune
American educator and civil rights leader (1875-1955)
Dorothy Height
American activist (1912-2010)
Val Demings
American politician in Florida (born 1957)
Sheryl Lee Ralph
American actress and singer
Nikki Giovanni
American poet, writer and activist
Elizabeth Catlett
Black American-born Mexican artist (1915–2012)
Jasmine Crockett
Jasmine Felicia Crockett is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 30th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented the 100th district in the Texas House of Representatives from 2021 to 2023.
Fannie Lou Hamer
American civil rights activist (1917–1977)
Alice Dunbar Nelson
American writer, activist (1875-1935)
Francena McCorory
American sprint athlete
Joycelyn Elders
American pediatrician, public health administrator, and former Surgeon General of the United States
Gloria Foster
American actress (1933–2001)
Patricia Harris
American politician and diplomat (1924–1985)
Angela Alsobrooks
American politician and lawyer (born 1971)
Keshia Knight Pulliam
American actress
Lisa P. Jackson
American politician: EPA administrator
Jessie Redmon Fauset
American novelist (1882–1961)
Alexis Herman
American politician and businesswoman (1947–2025)
Joyce Beatty
United States Representative from Ohio since 2013
Betty Shabazz
American educator and wife of Malcolm X (1934–1997)
Daphne Maxwell Reid
American actress, comedian and former model (born 1948)
Mary Church Terrell
American activist and suffragette (1863–1954)
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
American politician (1949–2008)
Daisy Bates
American civil rights activist (1914–1999)
K. Michelle
American singer
Shirley Caesar
American gospel singer, evangelist
Anielle Franco
Brazilian educator, journalist and writer
T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh
American actress, singer (born 1962)
Myrlie Evers-Williams
American civil rights activist
Alexa Canady
American physician specializing in neurosurgery
Candice Wiggins
American basketball player
Philippa Schuyler
American pianist and composer (1931–1967)
Dorothy Counts
American activist
Virginia M. Alexander
American physician
Regina Benjamin
18th Surgeon General of the United States
Ellen Holly
American actress
Bettye Washington Greene
African-American chemist (1935-1995)
Carrie P. Meek
American politician and educator (1926–2021)
Johnnetta B. Cole
American anthropologist
Soledad O'Brien
American broadcast journalist, producer, and philanthropist
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in economics in the United States
Suzzanne Douglas
American actress (1957-2021)
Selma Burke
American sculptor (1900-1995)