American Athletes
This 4 time NBA champion, 2 time Olympic gold medal winner, is also the founder of a foundation whose mission is to create generational change for the children and families of his home town of Akron, OH
Lebron James
Sold at an auction at Sotheby's, the most expensive sneakers ever went for $1.8 million on 26 April, 2021. While this model was never officially released, it is part of this iconic sneaker brand.
Air Jordan
This 1988 Toni Morrison novel won the Pulitzer prize for fiction and was partially responsible for Toni's Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
Beloved
Academy award winning actress Halle Berry is one of just handful of people to appear both in the DC and Marvel cinematic universes with her appearance as these two characters.
Catwoman (Catwoman) and Storm (X-Men franchise)
The "King of Pop" is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with estimated sales of over 400 million records worldwide. His inductions include the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (twice), the Vocal Group Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Dance Hall of Fame, and the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame.
Michael Jackson
This wide receiver played in the NFL for 21 seasons winning, during which he won 3 Super Bowls while on the San Francisco 49ers. As of 2017, he holds over 100 NFL records, the most of any player by a wide margin.
Jerry Rice
EGOT recipient James Earl Jones has an impressive 187 actor credits. He originally declined to be credited for one of his most iconic roles as this character, as he felt that he had not done enough work to get the billing.
Darth Vader
This 2018 memoir had more first-week sales of any adult book since Go Set a Watchman in 2015, having sold 1.4 million copies in its first week.
Becoming
This Comedy Central 2-man sketch comedy show ran from 2012 - 2015, during which it won a Peabody Award which honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and online media.
Key & Peele
With global sales of over 75 million records, the 'Queen of Soul" is one of the best-selling music artists from the second half of the 20th century to the present. Her incredible life was brought to the big screen in 2021 in the film Respect.
Aretha Franklin
Inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2021, this golfer is tied for 1st in PGA tour wins with 82
Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods
First airing in 2009, this fashion reality competition television series has thirteen seasons, six seasons of an All-Stars spin-off, and six international versions of the show. Oh, and there are even conventions on both coasts, drawing in thousands of attendees each year.
RuPaul's Drag Race
This N.K. Jemisin's three book series made her the first author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel in three consecutive years, as well as the first to win for all three novels in a trilogy.
Broken Earth
The Fifth Season (2015)
The Obelisk Gate (2016)
The Stone Sky (2017)
This 2018 film is the first MCU film to win an Academy Award when it won for Best Costume Design, Best Original Score, and Best Production Design.
Black Panther
The "Father of Rock and Roll", he refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive with songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958).
Chuck Berry
First entering the professional tennis scene in 1995, this athlete boasts an impressive 84.9% singles win rate and is considered the highest-earning female athlete of all time (in terms of prize money)
Serena Williams
Rebooted on Netflix in 2018, this show has gone on to win 5 consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Structured Reality Program. The show stars: Antoni Porowski, food and wine expert; Tan France, fashion expert; Karamo Brown, culture expert; Bobby Berk, design expert; and Jonathan Van Ness, grooming expert.
Queer Eye
Eisner Awards are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books, sometimes referred to as the comics industry's equivalent of the Academy Awards. The 2018 award for Best Limited Series went to Ta-Nehisi Coates, Roxane Gay, and Alitha E. Martinez for their work on this comic series.
Black Panther: World of Wakanda
This Chicago based daytime syndicated talk show aired nationally for 25 seasons from September 8, 1986, to May 25, 2011. During its run, it was the number 1 daytime show for more than 2 decades
The Oprah Winfrey Show
One of the world's best-selling recording artists, having sold 118 million records worldwide. She is the first solo artist to have their first six studio albums debut at number one on the Billboard 200. Her accolades include 28 Grammy Awards and 26 MTV Video Music Awards, just to name a few.
Beyoncé
This Texas born gymnast is the world record holder for most World medals with 25;4 Olympic, 19 World Championships, 2 Pacific Rim Championships
Simone Biles
Found by Dr. Dre and Kimmy Iovine in 2016, this consumer electronics brand was acquired by Apple for $3.2B in this year.
2014
This Colson Whitehead novel won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Colson the fourth writer in Pulitzer's 110 year history to win the prize for fiction twice
The Nickel Boys
This 2016 film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, along with Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay from a total of eight nominations, at the 89th Academy Awards.
Moonlight
Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2021 as a solo artist, The 'Queen of Soul" is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time with more than 100 million records sold worldwide.
Tina Turner