Actors
Halle Berry
model and entered several beauty contests,
Lebron James
Basketball Player
Prince
multi-instrumentalist
Oprah Winfrey
Talk show host
J. Ernest Wilkins Jr.
mechanical engineer
Denzel Washington
producer
Who's nickname is "MJ"
Michael Jordan
Aretha Franklin
pianist
Mae Jemison
Mae Jemison
Astronaut and engineer
Neil deGrasse Tyson
author, and science communicator
Sidney Poiter
film director
Charles Barkley
Basketball
Stevie Wonder
songwriter
Rosa Parks
Activist
Emmete Chappelle
medicine, philanthropy, food science, and astrochemistry.
Ossie Davis
activist
Tiger Woods
Louis Armstrong
American trumpeter and vocalist
Harriet Tubman
Benjamin Banneker
almanac author, surveyor, landowner and farmer
Bernie Mac
comedian
Althea Gibson
Althea Gibson overcame racial bias
James Brown
Record Producer
Morgan Freeman
Director
George Robert Carruthers
inventor, physicist, engineer and space scientist.