Black Church History
This famous SDA gospel singer has performed for presidents such as Jimmy Carter, George H.W Bush and Ronald Reagan.
Wintley Phipps
He is known as one of the most influential inventors in history who is responsible for several agricultural innovations.
George Washington Carver
Which player recently scored the most points in NBA history
Lebron James
She became the first female African American to hold the position of vice president of the Unites States of America.
Kamala Harris
This neurosurgeon was raised as a seventh-day Adventist and entered the political arena in 2017.
Ben Carson
She contributed research in developing the first touch-tone phone and caller ID
Shirley Ann Jackson
This famous female tennis player is named after one of the planets in our solar system
Venus Williams
This young author and CEO of “weird enough productions” created a foundation dedicated to addressing media misrepresentation through original video creation and media literacy education.
Tony Weaver Jr
(Daily double)This civil rights activist was once Seventh-day Adventist before converting to Islam
Malcolm X
This inventor created the three-position traffic signal in 1923
Garrett Morgan
Now this is a player everyone wants to be like. He starred in his own movie with the Looney Tunes
Micheal Jordan
He became the first African American astronaut to both live and work at the international space station
Victor J Glover
He was the first recorded African American seventh-day Adventist pastor
E.L. Barr
(*Daily Double)- This woman was responsible for inventing the first Global Positioning system (GPS) in 1986
Gladys West
This Olympic Gymnast Gold Medalist retired due to harassment they were subjugated to
Simone Biles
In 2021 he was voted into office as Georgia’s first black senator
Raphael Warnock
She grew up in the seventh-day Adventist church and became one of the members of TLC
Rozanda “Chilli” Thomas
This African American bus company owner created a safe bus transit system during segregation in 1926 in Winston, Salem
Clarence T Woodland
Played by the late, great Chadwick Boseman, this baseball player sporting the 42-jersey made history during their time playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers
Jackie Robinson
(Daily double) She became the first African American woman to serve as the associate justice of the U.S Supreme court in 2022.
Ketanji Brown Jackson