Sports
A dominant force in the game of basketball from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, he briefly quit basketball to play baseball.
Who is Michael Jordan?
His musical career began at the age of 5, but a solo performer he released one of the best-selling albums in history
Who is Michael Jackson?
He was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity
Who is Malcolm X?
America’s first black multi-billionaire and am a highly-regarded philanthropist who had a long running TV show.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
This African-American philosopher, activist and public intellectual wrote Race Matters and held a fellowship and professorships at Harvard, Yale, Union Theological Seminary and Princeton
Who is Cornell West?
This person became the first black player inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
rapper who sold millions of records with his Roc-a-Fella label, who also created a own clothing line and founded an entertainment company.
Who is Jay-Z?
After serving the Union army as a cook, nurse, and spy, she later guided runaway slaves through the "underground railroad."
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This American singer, rapper, and flutist played James Madison's crystal flute in 2022.
Who is Lizzo?
She was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
What woman set a world record for the 100m sprint in the 1988 Olympics and went on to win 3 gold medals?
Who is Flo Jo? (Florence Griffth-Joyner)
Despite being blind since birth, he debuted at the age 11 and in 2014, I received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama.
Who is Stevie Wonder?
Author of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, she known by the professional name she took on during her time as a nightclub singer and performer.
Who is Maya Angelou?
She was the first African American actress to win an Academy Award for best actress
Who is Halle Berry?
She began working in aeronautics as a "computer" in 1952, and after the formation of NASA, I performed the calculations that sent astronauts into orbit in the early 1960s and to the moon in 1969.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This basketball team plays exhibition games all over the world and originated on the South Side of Chicago in 1926.
Who are the Harlem Globetrotters?
Referred to as the "Father of Soul," his musical style combined blues, gospel and jazz to create groundbreaking hits.
Who is Ray Charles?
After graduating from an HBCU in Tennessee, and earning a Ph.D. from Harvard University, he helped create the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
Originally born Christopher Edwin Breaux, this singer, songwriter, and rapper who won two Grammys after starting his career as a ghost writer.
Who is Frank Ocean?
This doctor was the originator of the Blood Bank concept.
Who is Charles Drew?
The first black player to compete at Wimbledon
Who is Althea Gibson?
The first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987
Who is Aretha Franklin?
A Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winning novelist known for writing novels with epic themes, exquisite language and richly detailed African American characters.
Who is Toni Morrison?
The 4 main Black historical figures portrayed in One Night in Miami
Who are Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke?
This African-American surgeon founded the first non-segregated hospital in the United States and was also credited performing the first successful heart surgery
Who is Daniel Hale Williams?