Sam Cooke
Clarksdale, MS-born singer and songwriter who founded SAR Records and wrote "A Change Is Gonna Come."
Clarksdale, MS, USA
@blackwikiSeptima Clark
Charleston-born educator behind the Citizenship Schools movement.
Charleston, SC, USA
@blackwikiSeptima Clark
Charleston-born educator whose Citizenship Schools taught literacy and political organizing to over 25,000 adults across the Deep South.
Charleston, SC, USA
@blackwikiShirley Chisholm
First Black woman elected to Congress and the first to run for a major-party presidential nomination.
Brooklyn, NY, USA
@blackwikiSidney Poitier
First Black actor to win the Best Actor Oscar (1964); also one of the first major Black film directors.
Miami, FL, USA
@blackwikiSister Souljah
Bronx-born author and activist; The Coldest Winter Ever (1999) launched the modern street-fiction genre.
New York, NY, USA
@blackwikiSnoop Dogg
Long Beach rapper and TV host; founding voice of West Coast hip-hop.
Long Beach, CA, USA
@blackwikiSojourner Truth
Abolitionist and women's rights advocate; the 1851 "Ain't I a Woman?" speech in Akron is one of the most cited Black-feminist texts in American history.
Battle Creek, MI, USA
@blackwikiSonia Sanchez
Birmingham-born poet, activist, and a founder of the Black Arts Movement.
Birmingham, AL, USA
@blackwikiSpike Lee
Atlanta-born filmmaker whose Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, and BlacKkKlansman defined Black American cinema for three decades.
Atlanta, GA, USA
@blackwikiSpike Lee (NY years)
Atlanta-born filmmaker who lives and operates 40 Acres and a Mule out of Brooklyn.
New York, NY, USA
@blackwikiStacey Abrams
Voting-rights organizer, novelist, and former Georgia State House Minority Leader.
Atlanta, GA, USA
@blackwikiStephanie Williams
Black comic book writer; first Black woman ever nominated for the Eisner Award in Best Writer (2026), for her Mad Cave time-travel series Temporal.
USA
@blackwikiStephen A. Smith
Hollis, NC / NY-raised sports commentator and First Take host.
Winston-Salem, NC, USA
@blackwikiSteve Harvey
Welch, WV-born comedian and TV host; Family Feud, the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Welch, WV, USA
@blackwikiStevie Wonder
Saginaw, MI-born musician whose Songs in the Key of Life is among the most-acclaimed albums in American popular music.
Saginaw, MI, USA
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