T.V & Film
revolutionized filmmaking with movies like Do the Right Thing (1989) and Malcolm X
Spike Lee
Icon of West Coast rap and social activism; known for All Eyez on Me and Me Against the World; tackled themes of racial inequality and personal struggles.
Tupac Shakur
Winning 26 Emmy's, this educational Television show helped solidify children's literacy.
Reading Rainbow
First Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress (1968).Presidential Medal of Freedom
Shirley Chisholm
Holds the record for the most World Championship medals in gymnastics history.
Simone Biles
Actor celebrated for portraying Black icons like Jackie Robinson and Thurgood Marshall, and as T’Challa in Black Panther.
Chadwick Boseman
Won a Grammy Award (1995) for Best Rap Solo Performance for her hit single U.N.I.T.Y., which addressed issues like respect and gender equality.Starred in the sitcom Living Single (1993–1998),
Queen Latifah
Jerry Craft's graphic novel ____(2019) is a humorous and heartfelt story about a boy navigating a new school. It became the first graphic novel to win the Newbery Medal and also won the Coretta Scott King Award.
New Kid
First Black woman, first South Asian, and first woman vice president of the U.S. (2021).
Kamala Harris
First Black man to win Wimbledon (1975), the U.S. Open (1968), and the Australian Open (1970).
Arthur Ashe
nominated for a golden globe and Emmy for “Insecure”
won Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for "Insecure
Issa Rae
Pioneering female rapper and producer; known for hits like Work It and supa dupa fly; 5-time Grammy winner and the first female rapper inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Missy Elliot
Presidential Medal of Freedom (awarded in 2011). Pulitzer Prize nominee and Grammy Award winner for spoken-word albums.
Maya Angelou
Charity Adams Earley was a United States Army officer. She was the first African-American woman to become an officer in the Women's Army Corps.
Officer Charity Adams
Three-time world heavyweight boxing champion.Prominent civil rights activist, famously refusing the Vietnam War draft. Advocate for humanitarian causes worldwide.
Muhammad Ali
Media mogul, philanthropist, and the first Black woman billionaire; her talk show redefined television.
Oprah Winfrey
became the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, solidifying her title as the "Queen of Soul."
Aretha Franklin
_____Wrote As Brave as You as well as Look Both Ways: A Tale in Ten Blocks (2019) is a funny a lighthearted book while touching on real emotions and friendships.
Jason Reynolds
First African American First Lady of the United States (2009–2017). Authored the bestselling memoir Becoming (2018)
Michelle Obama
Fastest Woman in History! Florence Griffith Joyner, known as Flo Jo, still holds the world records for the 100m (10.49 seconds) and 200m (21.34 seconds), both set in 1988. No woman has broken these records to this day.
Flo Jo
became the second Black woman to win an Academy Award for acting, in Ghost (1990). Also co-hosts the "View" since 2007
Whoopi Goldberg
Won 13 Grammy Awards, including 8 for Thriller, and was awarded the Grammy Legend Award and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
Michael Jackson
In this West African Folklore from the Ashanti people from Ghana we learn about this trickster arachnid ______.
Anansi the spider
became the first Black President of the United States, serving two terms
Barak Obama
First Black Woman to Win a Grand Slam in the Open Era. Won 14 Grand Slams!
Serena Williams