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Jay-Z
Brooklyn-born rapper, label founder (Roc Nation), and businessman.
New York, NY, USA
The Notorious B.I.G.
Brooklyn-born rapper; Bad Boy Records' most consequential signing.
New York, NY, USA
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Harlem's first Black US congressman; chair of the Education and Labor Committee.
New York, NY, USA
Cicely Tyson
Actress whose 60-year stage and screen career produced Sounder, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, and How to Get Away with Murder.
New York, NY, USA
James Baldwin
Essayist and novelist whose Notes of a Native Son reframed Black American moral and literary identity.
New York, NY, USA
Sister Souljah
Bronx-born author and activist; The Coldest Winter Ever (1999) launched the modern street-fiction genre.
New York, NY, USA
Patricia Bath
Ophthalmologist who invented the Laserphaco Probe; first Black female physician to receive a US medical patent.
New York, NY, USA
Master P
New Orleans rapper and entrepreneur; founder of No Limit Records.
New Orleans, LA, USA
Louis Armstrong
New Orleans-born trumpeter, vocalist, and bandleader who invented the modern jazz solo.
New Orleans, LA, USA
Mahalia Jackson
New Orleans-born Queen of Gospel whose "How I Got Over" was the warm-up to MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech.
New Orleans, LA, USA
Lil Wayne
New Orleans rapper and Cash Money Records artist; one of the most prolific MCs of the 2000s and 2010s.
New Orleans, LA, USA
Vivien Thomas
Self-taught Nashville-born surgical technician who pioneered the blue-baby heart operation alongside Dr. Alfred Blalock.
Nashville, TN, USA
Diane Nash
Nashville student-movement leader who organized the lunch-counter sit-ins and the Freedom Rides.
Nashville, TN, USA
Rosa Parks
Civil rights organizer whose December 1955 refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama sparked the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Montgomery, AL, USA
Tommie Aaron
Mobile-born MLB player who played alongside Hank Aaron for the Atlanta Braves. The Aaron brothers combined for 768 home runs.
Mobile, AL, USA
Tonja K. Johnson
Minnesota-based Black speculative fiction author, acquiring editor at FIYAH Literary Magazine, and 2024 MN BIPOC Emerging Writer (fiction).
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Trina
Miami rapper; the Diamond Princess.
Miami, FL, USA
Trick Daddy
Miami rapper and pioneer of the Miami bass / Southern hip-hop sound.
Miami, FL, USA
Sidney Poitier
First Black actor to win the Best Actor Oscar (1964); also one of the first major Black film directors.
Miami, FL, USA
Rick Ross
Miami rapper and head of Maybach Music Group.
Miami, FL, USA
Al Green
Memphis-based gospel and soul singer; pastor of Full Gospel Tabernacle.
Memphis, TN, USA
Yo Gotti
Memphis rapper and CEO of Collective Music Group (CMG).
Memphis, TN, USA
Aretha Franklin
Memphis-born Queen of Soul whose 1967 "Respect" reframed the Civil Rights and Women's Liberation movements simultaneously.
Memphis, TN, USA
GloRilla
Memphis rapper; broke nationally with "F.N.F. (Let's Go)" in 2022.
Memphis, TN, USA