Posthumous Recognition
While best known for playing Theo Huxtable, he also was an Emmy nominee and 2-time Grammy nominee (and one-time Grammy winner).
Who is Malcolm-Jamal Warner?
Born to parents who escaped a Virginia plantation in 1842, he later went on to invent methods and technologies that made the lightbulb viable and cost-effective for common people.
Who is Lewis Latimer?
This movie about working class friends who become professional bank robbers features a subplot where one of them starts a romantic relationship with an employee of one of their targets.
What is Set It Off?
This doctor is the earliest documented African American physician recognized for work in infectious diseases, before the specialty formally existed.
Who is Dr. William Hinton?
These three Olympic gymnastics medal winners' podium photo went viral when the silver and bronze winners bowed down to the gold medalist.
Who are Rebeca Andrade, Simone Biles, and Jordan Chiles?
This former couple of seminal r&b singers met while working on the neo-soul classic "Brown Sugar".
Who are D'Angelo and Angie Stone?
This engineer's work contributed to basic necessities of modern life, such as the third-rail function in train systems and telephones. He was also sued twice by Thomas Edison for patent ownership, defeated him both times, and afterwards declined a subsequent job offer at the Edison Company.
Who is Granville Woods?
This was the only collaboration between Marlon Brando and Paul Newman, two actors famous for playing characters who live above and outside of the law.
What is the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
This Harvard professor of immunology and infectious diseases was instrumental in the development of the Moderna COVID vaccine.
Who is Dr. Kizzy Corbett-Helaire?
This film won Best Picture in the funniest way possible - "Guys, I'm sorry, there's a mistake..." said Jordan Horowitz, producer of La La Land.
What is Moonlight?
This former Virginia Tech professor and Langston Hughes Medal recipient wrote, among countless others, the classic poem "Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)".
Who is Nikki Giovanni?
This inventor created a natural gas-based central heating system that paved the way for modern HVAC systems in use today.
Who is Alice H. Parker?
This artist, author, and activist is perhaps most famous, at least to millenials, for her children's book "Tar Beach".
Who is Faith Ringgold?
Most famous for being the 18th U.S. Surgeon General, this doctor also has a long history of providing medical care to rural communities in the South.
Who is Dr. Regina Marcia Benjamin?
This event was a major moment in the career of Colin Kaepernick, former quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers.
What is a 56-yard touchdown run against Green Bay in the playoffs to set up an eventual Super Bowl appearance?
Admitted to Howard University at 15, this former middle school teacher later became famous for several hits, including "The Closer I Get to You" and "Killing Me Softly with His Song".
Who is Roberta Flack?
This computer scientist led teams that created breakthroughs in both the world's first 1-gig microchip and the color PC monitor.
Who is Dr. Mark Dean?
One of this artist's most famous works is "The Liberation of Aunt Jemima", featuring the character with a pistol on her hip, holding a rifle, and a clenched fist in the foreground.
Who is Betye Saar?
The Association of American Medical Colleges, a frequent IDSA collaborator, named an award after this doctor for medical professionals who "[demonstrate], through their leadership, a commitment to diversifying the health care workforce".
Who is Dr. Louis Wade Sullivan?
This female politician of West Indian descent sought the Democratic presidential nomination, calling for a "bloodless revolution" in the party.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
Born with HIV in 1984, she became an activist for HIV/AIDS patients at age 6, playing a key role in changing young Americans' perceptions of those living with the virus.
Who is Hydeia Broadbent?
An accomplished ophthalmologist in her own right, she also created laser photoablative cataract surgery, a painless and effective way to eliminate cataracts, and the laser phaco probe, the device used to perform it.
Who is Dr. Patricia Bath?
This former professional football player was also an artist, creating the famous "Sugar Shack" painting, featured in the closing credits of Good Times.
Who is Ernie Barnes?
A de facto civil rights activist in the medical field, this gastroenterologist organized the Flying Black Medics, a group of health professionals designed to provide urgent care to remote communities that had suffered racist attacks in Illinois.
Who is Dr. Leonidas Harris Berry?
In her televised bid to integrate party leadership, this sharecropper-turned activist rejected soon-to-be Vice President Hubert Humphrey's compromise offer, famously telling him, "We didn't come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired."
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?