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From his breakout role on "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" to memorable roles in Men in Black and Suicide Squad, he has had an impressive acting rapping and movie career.
Will Smith
He was a free African-American author, surveyor, landowner and farmer who had knowledge of mathematics and natural history surveyor. He was hired to survey an area that would contain a new federal district, Washington D.C.
Benjamin Banneker
She is a lawyer, writer, and the wife of the 44th President, Barack Obama. She was the first African-American First Lady of the United States. Through her four main initiatives, she has become a role model for women and an advocate for healthy families, service members and their families, higher education, and international adolescent girls education.
Michele Obama
An American sitcom television series created by Kenya Barris. It follows an upper middle class African-American family led by Andre 'Dre' Johnson and Rainbow Johnson. The show revolves around the family's lives, as they juggle several personal and sociopolitical issues.
Blackish
A rising star she made history as the first African American Female Principal Dancer with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre.
Misty Copland
An American actor, director, and producer. He has been described as an actor who reconfigured "the concept of classic movie stardom", associating with characters defined by their grace, dignity, humanity, and inner strength. He has stared in films like Malcom X, Philadelphia and the Pelican Brief.
Denzel Washington
In all, he developed more than 300 food, industrial and commercial products from peanuts, including milk, Worcestershire sauce, punches, cooking oils and salad oil, paper, cosmetics, soaps and wood stains. He also experimented with peanut-based medicines, such as antiseptics, laxatives and goiter medications. He was the most prominent black scientist of the early 20th century.
George Washington Carver
American artist and author who became famous for innovative quilted narrations that communicate her political beliefs. She is known for books like Tar Beach, Dinner at Aunt Connie’s and If a Bus Could Talk.
Faith Ringgold
She is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show, broadcasted from Chicago, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 years from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media",[5] she was the richest African American of the 20th century[6][7] and North America's first black multi-billionaire,[8] and she has been ranked the greatest black philanthropist in American history.
Oprah Winfrey
He was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. Through stage and video performances, he popularized complicated dance techniques such as the moonwalk, to which he gave the name, and the robot.
Michael Jackson
A tall, handsome, and versatile American actor, he. He first came to be recognized by moviegoers starring as Ricky in Boyz n the Hood (1991), a role where he played a high school running back using his football skills to escape the violent surroundings of his South Central Los Angeles neighborhood.
Morris Chestnut
An American inventor and patent draftsman for the patents of the incandescent light bulb, among other inventions.
Luis Latimer
Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman were his primary influences, and is particularly known for his insightful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties. He wrote novels, short stories, plays, and poetry, and is also known for his engagement with the world of jazz and the influence it had on his writing, as in his book-length poem Montage of a Dream Deferred. Famous poems include “Mother to Son” and “Dreams”
Langston Hughes
He is the host of both Family Feud and Celebrity Family Feud, which he has done since 2010. He has also hosted Little Big Shots, Little Big Shots Forever Young, and Funderdome. As an author, he has written four books including his bestseller Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, which was published in March 2009.
Steve Harvey
His experiences of life in the rural South would later inspire some of his most memorable works. In 1958, he founded xAmerican Dance Theater to carry out his vision of a company dedicated to enriching the American modern dance heritage and preserving the uniqueness of the African-American cultural experience. He established the xAmerican Dance Center (now The x School) in 1969 and formed the x Repertory Ensemble (now x II) in 1974. Mr. Ailey was a pioneer of programs promoting arts in education, particularly those benefiting underserved communities.
Alvin Ailey
He was an American actor and playwright. After studying directing at Howard University, he became prominent in theater, winning a Drama League Directing Fellowship. His breakthrough performance came in 2013 as baseball player Jackie Robinson in the biographical film 42. He continued to portray historical figures, starring in Get on Up (2014) as singer James Brown and Marshall (2017) as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. However, he achieved international fame for playing superhero Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe from 2016 to 2019.
Chadwick Boseman
Sarah Breedlove was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records.[1] She made her fortune by developing and marketing a line of cosmetics and hair care products for black women through the business she founded, the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company
Madam C.J. Walker
Born Marguerite Annie Johnson; was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim.
Maya Angelou
This television show follows the unscrupulous world of a family with scandalous secrets and lies, their palatial family mansion compound, and their sprawling Memphis megachurch with predominantly African-American members.
Greenleaf
Born Freda Josephine McDonald, was an American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent, freemason[1] and civil rights activist. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France. She was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 silent film Siren of the Tropics She was known for aiding the French Resistance during World War II.[ She refused to perform for segregated audiences in the United States and is noted for her contributions to the civil rights movement. During Baker's work with the Civil Rights Movement, she began adopting children, forming a family she often referred to as "The Rainbow Tribe".
Josephine Baker
First name, Shelton is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and professor. His production company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, has produced more than 35 films since 1983. He made his directorial debut with She's Gotta Have It (1986). He has since written and directed such films as Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo' Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), 25th Hour (2002), Inside Man (2006), Chi-Raq (2015), BlacKkKlansman (2018) and Da 5 Bloods (2020). He also acted in ten of his films.
Garret Morgan
He was an African-American inventor, businessman, and community leader. His most notable inventions were a three position traffic signal and a smoke hood (a predecessor to the gas mask[1]) notably used in a 1916 tunnel construction disaster rescue.[2] He also discovered and developed a chemical hair-processing and straightening solution.
Garret Morgan
She became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South. In 1964, artist Norman Rockwell celebrated her courage with a painting of that first day entitled, “The Problem We All Live With.”
Ruby Bridges
An American crime drama television series created and produced by Courtney A. Kemp in collaboration with Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson.
POWER
She is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, singer-songwriter, director, producer, and a former member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.[1][2] She has been nominated 20 times for an Emmy Award (winning three),[3] two Tony Awards,[4] and has also won a Golden Globe Award[5] and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1991.
She is best known for her work in the musical-drama television series Fame .
Debbie Allan Fame