Arts, Culture & Expression
Singer and activist known for “Mississippi Goddam”
Who is Nina Simone
Wrote Beloved
Who is Toni Morrison
First Black artist to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Who is Tommy Edwards
Founded the NAACP
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois
First African American Academy Award Winner
Who is Hattie McDaniel
Author of Go Tell It on the Mountain
Who is James Baldwin
Poet known for Still I Rise
Who is Maya Angelou
First Black woman to headline Coachella
Who is Beyoncé
First Black woman elected to Congress
Who is Shirley Chisholm
First Black woman Vice President of the United States
Who is Kamala Harris
Playwright behind Fences
Who is August Wilson
Author of The Color Purple
Who is Alice Walker
Jazz legend known for the song “What a Wonderful World”
Who is Louis Armstrong
Leader of the Nation of Islam after Elijah Muhammad
Who is Louis Farrakhan
First Black billionaire woman in the U.S.
Who is Oprah Winfrey
Influential 1980s artist known for graffiti-style paintings
Who is Jean-Michel Basquiat
Scholar and activist who coined the term “intersectionality.”
Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw?
First Black actor to win an Oscar
Who is Sidney Poitier
Gay civil rights activist, organizer of the March on Washington
Who is Bayard Rustin
First Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal
Who is Alice Coachman
Director of Do the Right Thing
Who is Spike Lee
Historian who wrote The Souls of Black Folk
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois
Creator of the TV show Black-ish
Who is Kenya Barris
First Black Secretary of State
Who is Colin Powell
First African-American to record commercially
Who is George W. Johnson