Sports
The most decorated gymnast in history.
Simone Biles
The headliner and special guest in the 2025 Superbowl Halftime Show.
Kendrick Lamar and Sza
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Martin Luther King Jr.
The first black president of the U.S.A.
Barack Obama
An abolitionist who made approximately 13 trips through the Underground Railroad to free enslaved people. She later served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army in the Civil War.
Harriet Tubman
The first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era.
Jackie Robinson
The Disney Channel show where Zendaya made her acting debut in.
Shake It Up
"She's an icon, she's a legend, and she is the moment."
Wendy Williams
He was the most important leader of the civil rights movement in the 19th century and is well known for his autobiographies detailing his experience with slavery.
Fredrick Douglas
An American civil rights activist best known for her defiance of Jim Crow laws by refusing to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott.
Rosa Parks
The first black woman to play for team USA Hockey in the 2026 winter Olympics.
Laila Edwards
One of the best-selling music artists of all time and owner of the brand Fenty Beauty.
Rihanna
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."
Maya Angelou
She was the the first female self made millionaire for developing a line of black hair care products.
Madam C.J. Walker
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction".
Section 1 of the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution
Dominant sisters who revolutionized women’s tennis, one of them being widely considered the greatest of all time.
Serena & Venus Williams
The first African American person to achieve EGOT status in 2002.
Whoopie Goldberg
"Power is not given to you. You have to take it."
Beyoncé
An American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut; she became the first black woman in space in 1992.
Mae C. Jemison
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court which ruled that racial segregation in public schools violates the 14th Amendment, overturning its previous "separate but equal" ruling.
Brown v. Board of Education
Tennis player ranked world #2 in singles, world #1 in doubles, and has consistently ranked in the top 10 since late 2022.
Coco Gauff
The first female rapper to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2023.
Missy Elliot
"What I want young women and girls to know is: You are powerful and your voice matters."
Kamala Harris
She took her position as the first black woman to serve in Congress in 1969 and in 1971 was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Shirley Chisholm
The largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution, which took place in South Carolina, 1739.
The Stono Rebellion