George Washington Carver
Agricultural scientist who saved the Southern Black sharecropping economy by promoting peanuts, sweet potatoes, and crop rotation.
Tuskegee, AL, USA
@blackwikiGloRilla
Memphis rapper; broke nationally with "F.N.F. (Let's Go)" in 2022.
Memphis, TN, USA
@blackwikiHank Aaron
Hall of Fame outfielder who broke Babe Ruth's career home-run record amid sustained racist threats.
Atlanta, GA, USA
@blackwikiHarriet Tubman
Underground Railroad conductor who led 70+ enslaved people to freedom; also led an armed Civil War raid that liberated 700.
Cambridge, MD, USA
@blackwikiHenrietta Lacks
Roanoke-born tobacco farmer whose cancer cells (HeLa) became the most widely used human cell line in medical research.
Roanoke, VA, USA
@blackwikiHenry Louis Gates Jr.
Keyser, WV-born literary critic and host of PBS's Finding Your Roots.
Keyser, WV, USA
@blackwikiHoney
Performer + Threads creator (@itshoneybxby), featured on On Stage.
USA
@blackwikiHosea Williams
SCLC field general who led the Bloody Sunday march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge alongside John Lewis.
Atlanta, GA, USA
@blackwikiIda B. Wells
Anti-lynching journalist, suffragist, and co-founder of the NAACP whose Memphis newspaper exposed the true motives behind mob lynchings in the 1890s.
Holly Springs, MS, USA
@blackwikiImani Perry
Birmingham-born professor at Princeton; author of South to America (winner of the National Book Award).
Princeton, NJ, USA
@blackwikiJames Baldwin
Essayist and novelist whose Notes of a Native Son reframed Black American moral and literary identity.
New York, NY, USA
@blackwikiJames Brown
Barnwell, SC-born Godfather of Soul.
Barnwell, SC, USA
@blackwikiJames Meredith
First Black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi (1962); 1966 March Against Fear leader.
Kosciusko, MS, USA
@blackwikiJames Weldon Johnson
Jacksonville-born poet and NAACP secretary; co-wrote "Lift Every Voice and Sing."
Jacksonville, FL, USA
@blackwikiJay-Z
Brooklyn-born rapper, label founder (Roc Nation), and businessman.
New York, NY, USA
@blackwikiJesse Owens
Oakville, AL-born track athlete whose four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics humiliated Hitler's racial-superiority narrative.
Oakville, AL, USA
@blackwikiJim Brown
St. Simons Island-born Cleveland Browns running back; widely considered the greatest football player of all time.
St. Simons Island, GA, USA
@blackwikiJoe Frazier
Beaufort, SC-born heavyweight boxing champion.
Beaufort, SC, USA
@blackwikiJoe Louis
Lafayette, AL-born heavyweight boxing champion (1937β49) whose 1938 rematch with Max Schmeling was an explicit refutation of Nazi racism.
Lafayette, AL, USA
@blackwikiJohn Coltrane
Hamlet, NC-born saxophonist whose 1965 A Love Supreme is one of the most influential jazz albums ever recorded.
High Point, NC, USA
@blackwikiJohn Hope Bryant
Entrepreneur, author, and financial dignity advocate who founded Operation HOPE to bring economic literacy and banking access to underserved communities.
Entrepreneur Β· Atlanta, Georgia, US
@blackwikiJohn Lewis
SNCC chair, Freedom Rider, and 17-term US Congressman from Atlanta who led the march beaten back at the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Atlanta, GA, USA
@blackwikiJosephine Baker
St. Louis-born performer; the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture (1927).
St. Louis, MO, USA
@blackwikiKai Cenat
Brooklyn-born Twitch streamer; the most-subscribed streamer in the world and the first to cross 500K, 1M, and 20M followers.
Brooklyn, NY, USA
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