Best Selling Black Authors
Musically Gifted
Award Winning Black woman
Notable Black Woman in Tyler Perry Films:
Trailblazing Black Women in Sports
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  • This extraordinary civil rights activist, poet and award-winning author known for her acclaimed 1969 memoir, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, and her numerous poetry and essay collections. 

Maya Angelou

100
  • This Musically gifted Black women won 5 Grammys at the 41st Grammy Award Show in 1999. 

Lauryn Hill

100
  • Four years in a row, she won the Outstanding Drama Series award at NAACP Image Award for  for her creation of the popular ABC network TV series Grey’s Anatomy. 


  • Shonda Rhimes


100
  • This actress is often featured alongside of Madea, as Madea’s best friend and/or partner in crime. 

Cassandra “Cassi” Davis

100
  • The first Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal At the 1948 Summer Olympic Games in London. 

Alice Marie Coachman Davis

200
  • In 1993, she become the 8th woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. 

Toni Morrison

200
  • The song “Strange Fruit”, written and composed by Lewis Allan, was first recorded in 1939 by this musically gifted singer. 

Billie Holiday

200
  • She is one of few performers to have been awarded an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony (EGOT) and She became the 3rd Black Woman in History to achieve EGOT. 

Viola Davis  

200
  • This actress has a recurring role as Madeas daughter Tyler Perry films. 

 Tamela Mann

200
  • She became the first African American in history to win the individual all-around event. She also won gold medals for the U.S. in the team competitions at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. 

 Gabby Douglas

300
  • The author of New York’s best selling book “The New Jim Crow”. 

Michelle Alexander

300
  • This award-winning singer and actress portrayed Dorothy Gale in the 1978 film “The Wiz”.  

 Diana Ross

300
  • As of 2023, the record for the most Grammy Awards won in a lifetime is held by this singer, songwriter, and dancer. She currently has won 32 awards.

*Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter

300
  • This actress played the starring role in the first ever Tyler Perry play turned film, "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" in 2005? 

 Kimberly Elise

300
  • In 1986, she became the first Black woman to win the U.S. figure skating singles championship. 

Debi Thomas

400
  • This brilliant woman authored the book entitled “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing”.

Dr. Joy DeGruy  

400
  • The 1997 tv movie "Cinderella" film starred these two musically gifted Black Women. 

 Brandy and Whitney Houston

400
  • This Chicago born, actress, producer, and screenwriter, wrote and produced the road trip-crime film Queen & Slim whom she In 2019, she won Best Original Screenplay at Black Film Critics Circle Awards.

Lena Waithe

400
  •    This TV Show stars Actresses KJ Smith, Ebony Obsidian Angela Beyince, and Mignon Von. 

* Tyler Perry’s Sistas

400
  • Considered the greatest tennis players of all time. She won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most by any player in the Open Era, and the second-most of all time. She is the only player, male or female, to accomplish a Career Golden Slam in both singles and doubles. 

* Serena Williams

500
  • This author is known for her best-selling erotic fiction novels, whose real name is Kristina Laferne Roberts, but She writes under this pseudonym 

Zane

500
  • The birth name of “Im Every Woman” singer, Chaka Khan. 

 Yvette Marie Stevens

500
  • At the tender age of nine years old, she became and still holds the title for the second youngest person to win a Grammy. 

 Blu Ivy Carter

500
  •  Name four of the many talented Black actresses starring in the 2010 film “tyler Perrys: For Colored Girls”. 

Kimberly Elise, Janet Jackson, Whooi Goldberg, Kerry Washington, Thandiwe Newton, Loretta Devine, Phylicia Rashad, Tessa Thompson, Macy Gray.

500
  • This now retired undefeated professional boxer held the WBC, WIBA, IWBF and IBA female super middleweight titles, and the IWBF light heavyweight title. Widely regarded by many within the sport as one of the greatest female boxers of all time. 

 Laila Ali “Madame Butterfly”

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