Bayard 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
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