Sports
This NBA legend is widely considered the greatest basketball player of all time and won six championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Michael Jordan
This “King of Pop” released the best-selling album Thriller in 1982.
Michael Jackson
This woman refused to give up her seat on a bus in 1955, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Rosa Parks
This 2016 film tells the true story of three African American women mathematicians at NASA who played key roles in launching John Glenn into orbit.
Hidden Figures
These two people were the president and vice president of NABA Villanova last year.
Dominic and Teni
This athlete broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947 while playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Jackie Robinson
This “Single Ladies” singer is one of the most awarded artists in Grammy history.
Beyonce
This 2018 Marvel film became the first superhero movie to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
Black Panther
In this year, NABA once again became an official club here on campus(Not original founding year).
2019
This track and field star won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, disproving Nazi claims of racial superiority.
Jesse Owens
This rapper released the 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly, widely considered one of the greatest hip-hop albums ever.
Kendrick Lamar
In 2002, she became the first Black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performance in Monster’s Ball.
Halle Berry
This individual is the richest black person in America
David Steward
This quarterback became the first Black QB to win a Super Bowl in 1988 with Washington.
Doug Williams
This musician known as “The Purple One” starred in and released the soundtrack for Purple Rain.
Prince
This groundbreaking 1968 film, directed by Gordon Parks, was one of the first major studio movies directed by an African American, paving the way for the Blaxploitation era.
The Learning Tree
(DOUBLE JEOPARDY) This person is one of the 9 founders of NABA.
Ronald Benjamin, Earl Bigget, Donald Bristow, Bertram Gibson, Kenneth Drummond, Richard McNamee, George Wallace, Michael Winston, and Frank K. Ross
This Olympic sprinter became the first American woman to win the 100m, 200m, and 4×100 relay in the same Olympics (1988).
Florence Griffith-Joyner
This rapper and producer founded Aftermath Entertainment and discovered Eminem and 50 Cent.
Dr. Dre
In 1929, this filmmaker wrote, directed, and produced Within Our Gates, the oldest known surviving film directed by an African American, which challenged racist stereotypes in early cinema.
Oscar Micheaux
In 1972, this businessman co-founded Black Enterprise magazine, which became a leading publication highlighting African American entrepreneurship and financial success.
Earl G. Graves Sr