Inventions
This woman was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and activist in the Civil Rights Movement. She employed a broad range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop. Her voice is heard today in commercials and your favorite rap songs (Jay Z, Kanye West etc.)
This artist first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo. His art continues to live on, you hear his name frequently in Hip-Hop music.
She was a beauty salon owner, who changed the game of hair styling when she invented the “permanent wave machine.”
This woman is an American attorney who served as the 83rd Attorney General of the United States, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2015 to succeed Eric Holder.She is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
This actress is best known for her role as "Mammy" in Gone with the Wind (1939), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first Academy Award won by an African American entertainer.
She is an American political activist, academic, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. She is now a professor and author of Freedom is a Constant Struggle.
This actress has portrayed Tina Turner, Rosa Parks, Dr. Betty Shabazz, , Marie Laveau in American Horror Story, and Queen Mother in Marvel's Black Panther
She is a former member of the Black Liberation Army, a Black nationalist urban guerrilla group. She is a revolutionary Black icon, whose legend has evolved into making her a patron saint of Black rebellion in the last half-century. She is also the aunt of rapper Tupac Shakur.