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This NBA star was drafted into the league straight from high school at age 17. He went on to win 5 titles on his team in LA and started a foundation with his wife which aimed to reduce homelessness in the city.
Who is Kobe Bryant?
Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?
Who is BARACK OBAMA!
Known for popularizing the Toronto Sound and signed to Young Money Entertainment, this rapper, songwriter, entrepreneur first gained recognition for his role on TV series, Degrassi.
Who is Drake?
The Women's Tennis Association ranked her world No. 1 in singles on eight separate occasions between 2002 and 2017. She has competed at three Olympics and won four gold medals.
Who is Serena Williams?
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp after being chosen to lead a school for blacks Tuskegee, Alabama?
Who is Booker T. Washington?
The American politician and attorney currently serving as the 49th vice president of the United States. She is the United States' first female vice president, the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, and the first African American and first Asian American vice president.
Kamala Devi Harris
Who is the Civil Rights Activist/minister who brought people together for peaceful protests and said "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who is the female entertainer/entrepreneur who brokered a megadeal with Netflix for "Homecoming" and starred as a voiceover in Disney's remake of The Lion King?
Who is Beyonce Knowles Carter?
The American track and field athlete and four-time gold medalist in the 1936 Olympic games who specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history".
Who is Jesse Owens
The first African American female principal dancer with the AMerican Ballet Theatre (ABT) who began taking ballet classes at age 13.
Who is Misty Copeland?
The American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. He broke the baseball color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947
Who is Jackie Robinson?
The first African American child to integrate an all-white public elementary school in the South. She later became a civil rights activist.
Her single, "Truth Hurts," topped the Billboard Hot 100 and is now the longest-running Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 by a solo female artist. After posing for multiple publications which would not have considered a plus size model, she is known as a one-woman movement of contagious self-love and a champion for body positivity and people who feel different or unseen.
Who is Lizzo?
Born in Princeton, NJ this international activist was the 3rd African American to attend Rutgers University. He became an acclaimed 20th-century performer known for productions like 'The Emperor Jones' and 'Othello.'
Who is Paul Robeson?
Considered to be one of the most influential rappers of all time, he also went by the alias "Makaveli" and attended the Baltimore School of Performing Arts where he studied ballet and poetry.
Tupac Shakur