Like a Boss
This presidential medal of freedom winner was a talk show host for many years, and now has her very "OWN" TV network.
Oprah Winfrey
The movie, Purple Rain earned him both a Oscar and a Grammy.
Prince
Her book, Becoming has been on the New York Times Bestseller list for 58 weeks and counting!
Michelle Obama
This champion coined the phrase "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
Muhammad Ali
Her refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a critical movement in the fight for civil rights.
Rosa Parks
This world-renown superstar and former Destiny's child member, recently launched a collaboration with her clothing line Ivy Park and Adidas.
Beyoncé
This R&B singer, known as the "Queen of Hip-hop Soul," is famous for her hits Real Love, Not Gon' Cry and Family Affair to name a few.
Mary J. Blige
She freed over 100 slaves and was the first woman to lead an armed military operation in the United States.
Harriet Tubman
This inspirational civil rights figure exclaimed, "I’ve been to the mountain top…I’ve seen the Promise Land."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
During this 1963 event, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his iconic I Have A Dream speech.
The March on Washington
In 2019, this popular movie director opened the first black-owned film studio on the grounds of a former confederate military base in Atlanta.
Tyler Perry
Considered to be one of the best Jazz vocalists of all time, her autobiography inspired the 1972 film, Lady Sings the Blues.
Billie Holiday
She was the first African-American child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South.
Ruby Bridges
This influential poet declared, "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."
Maya Angelou
The Woolworth lunch counter sit-in of 1960, which led to the removal of the store's policy of segregation, occurred in this Lincoln "Key City."
Greensboro, North Carolina
Her popular modeling competition was on air for 24 seasons and launched the careers of several famous models including Winnie Harlow and Eva Marcille.
Tyra Banks
This hip hop group from Philadelphia is featured as the resident band on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
The Roots
She directed the movie Selma, and became the first African American woman to direct a film nominated for a best picture Oscar.
Ava Duvernay
This historically significant political leader once said "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some time. We are the ones we've been waiting for."
Barack Obama
This group's enrollment into Cental High School in Little Rock, Arkansas was the first true test of the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling.
Little Rock Nine
This billionaire businessman pledged to pay off the the entire student loan debt of the 2019 Morehouse College graduating class of 396 students.
Robert Smith
NAACP leader, James Weldon Johnson wrote the lyrics to this song, which is widely known as the "Black National Anthem."
Lift Every Voice and Sing
In 1939, this classical singer born in Philadelphia was refused permission to sing to at Constitution Hall in Washington D.C., and ended up singing to a crowd of thousands on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Marian Anderson
This key figure of the Harlem Renaissance told us to, “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”
Langston Hughes
This Act, which prohibited discrimination in real estate, became law on April 11, 1968.
The Fair Housing Act