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Jim Brown
St. Simons Island-born Cleveland Browns running back; widely considered the greatest football player of all time.
St. Simons Island, GA, USA
Viola Davis
St. Matthews, SC-born actress — the only Black actress to achieve EGOT-status across the four major American entertainment awards.
St. Matthews, SC, USA
Nelly
St. Louis rapper; "Hot in Herre," "Country Grammar."
St. Louis, MO, USA
Josephine Baker
St. Louis-born performer; the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture (1927).
St. Louis, MO, USA
Maya Angelou (early years)
Born in St. Louis in 1928; her childhood trauma there became material for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
St. Louis, MO, USA
Chuck Berry
St. Louis pioneer of rock and roll; author of "Johnny B. Goode" and "Roll Over Beethoven."
St. Louis, MO, USA
Wilma Rudolph
Saint Bethlehem, TN-born sprinter — first American woman to win three gold medals at a single Olympics (Rome, 1960).
Saint Bethlehem, TN, USA
Stevie 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
Fannie Lou Hamer
Mississippi Delta sharecropper turned voting-rights organizer whose 1964 DNC speech forced national TV coverage of Jim Crow violence.
Ruleville, MS, USA
Muddy Waters
Mississippi Delta-born blues guitarist whose electric Chicago blues style birthed rock and roll.
Rolling Fork, MS, USA
Henrietta Lacks
Roanoke-born tobacco farmer whose cancer cells (HeLa) became the most widely used human cell line in medical research.
Roanoke, VA, USA
L. Douglas Wilder
First Black US governor since Reconstruction — governor of Virginia 1990–94.
Richmond, VA, USA
Maggie L. Walker
Richmond banker — first woman of any race to charter a bank in the US.
Richmond, VA, USA
Arthur Ashe
Richmond-born tennis champion and activist.
Richmond, VA, USA
Imani Perry
Birmingham-born professor at Princeton; author of South to America (winner of the National Book Award).
Princeton, NJ, USA
Missy Elliott
Portsmouth-born rapper and producer; first woman rapper inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Portsmouth, VA, USA
Domonique Brown
Award-winning illustrator and designer from Pomona, CA; founder and artist behind the DomoINK lifestyle brand.
Pomona, CA, USA
Garrett Morgan
Paris, KY-born inventor of the three-position traffic signal and an early gas mask design.
Paris, KY, USA
Jesse Owens
Oakville, AL-born track athlete whose four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics humiliated Hitler's racial-superiority narrative.
Oakville, AL, USA
Kamala Harris
Oakland-born former Vice President of the United States.
Oakland, CA, USA
Tina Turner
Nutbush-born Queen of Rock 'n' Roll whose 1980s solo career rebounded from a public escape from domestic abuse.
Nutbush, TN, USA
Michael Vick
Newport News-born quarterback; first Black QB drafted #1 overall.
Newport News, VA, USA
Spike Lee (NY years)
Atlanta-born filmmaker who lives and operates 40 Acres and a Mule out of Brooklyn.
New York, NY, USA
Nas
Queens-born rapper; Illmatic widely cited as the greatest hip-hop album ever.
New York, NY, USA