KevOnStage
Stand-up comedian, actor, and content creator known for sharp observational humor rooted in Black church culture and everyday family life.
@blackwikiA. Philip Randolph
Labor organizer; founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and led the March on Washington Movement.
Crescent City, FL, USA
@blackwikiAdam Clayton Powell Jr.
Harlem's first Black US congressman; chair of the Education and Labor Committee.
New York, NY, USA
@blackwikiAl Green
Memphis-based gospel and soul singer; pastor of Full Gospel Tabernacle.
Memphis, TN, USA
@blackwikiAlice Walker
Eatonton, GA-born author who rediscovered Zora Neale Hurston and wrote The Color Purple.
Eatonton, GA, USA
@blackwikiAllen Iverson
Hampton-born Hall of Fame point guard; Rookie of the Year 1997 and MVP 2001.
Hampton, VA, USA
@blackwikiAndré 3000
Atlanta rapper and singer — one half of OutKast and a solo artist whose 2023 New Blue Sun was an instrumental flute album.
Atlanta, GA, USA
@blackwikiAndrew Young
Civil rights lieutenant to MLK, US Congressman, UN Ambassador under Carter, and two-term Mayor of Atlanta.
Atlanta, GA, USA
@blackwikiAretha Franklin
Memphis-born Queen of Soul whose 1967 "Respect" reframed the Civil Rights and Women's Liberation movements simultaneously.
Memphis, TN, USA
@blackwikiArthur Ashe
Richmond-born tennis champion and activist.
Richmond, VA, USA
@blackwikiAshley Canay
Tampa-based photographer and creator of TampaBlackDollar.com, a free directory of Black-owned businesses in Tampa Bay.
Tampa, FL, USA
@blackwikiBayard Rustin
Strategist behind the 1963 March on Washington; openly gay civil rights organizer.
West Chester, PA, USA
@blackwikiBB King
Indianola, MS-born blues guitarist whose 60+ year career made the blues a global form.
Indianola, MS, USA
@blackwikibell hooks
Kentucky-born feminist theorist whose Ain't I a Woman (1981) reshaped how race, gender, and class are taught.
Hopkinsville, KY, USA
@blackwikiBessie Coleman
Texas-born aviator — the first Black woman to earn a pilot's license, doing it in France because no US school would teach her.
Atlanta, TX, USA
@blackwikiBeyoncé
Singer, songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur who became one of the most decorated and influential artists in modern music history.
@blackwikiBig Boi
Savannah-born rapper, the other half of OutKast; solo career with Sir Lucious Left Foot... The Son of Chico Dusty.
Atlanta, GA, USA
@blackwikiBo Jackson
Bessemer-born two-sport athlete; Heisman winner and the only person ever named an All-Star in both MLB and the NFL.
Bessemer, AL, USA
@blackwikiBooker T. Washington
Founder of the Tuskegee Institute (1881) and the most influential Black public figure of the late 19th-century South.
Tuskegee, AL, USA
@blackwikiByron Allen
Byron Allen is a comedian-turned-media mogul who built Entertainment Studios into a multi-billion-dollar independent media company and owns The Weather Channel.
Media Mogul
@blackwikiCam Newton
Atlanta-born quarterback; 2015 NFL MVP and Super Bowl 50 starter.
Atlanta, GA, USA
@blackwikiCarter G. Woodson
Founder of Negro History Week — predecessor to Black History Month — and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
Washington, DC, USA
@blackwikiCharles Drew
Surgeon and DC native who developed large-scale blood banking and led the WWII Blood for Britain program.
Washington, DC, USA
@blackwikiCharles Hamilton Houston
Howard Law dean and architect of the NAACP's strategy to dismantle Plessy v. Ferguson.
Washington, DC, USA
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