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Aaliyah
Hank Aaron
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Ralph Abernathy
Freddy Adu
Alvin Ailey
Akon
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Archibald Alphonso Alexander
Muhammad Ali
Debbie Allen
Richard Allen
Marian Anderson
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Carmelo Anthony
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Arthur Ashe
Evelyn Ashford
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James "Cool Papa" Bell
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Carol Moseley-Braun
Valerie Brisco-Hooks
Lou Brock
Edward Brooke
Avery Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
Foxy Brown
James Brown
Jim Brown
Kobe Bryant
Buck Buchanan
Edward Bullins
Ralph Bunche
Harry T. Burleigh
Leroy Burrell
LeVar Burton
Octavia Butler
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Lee Calhoun
Cab Calloway
Roy Campanella
Earl Campbell
Milt Campbell
Rod Carew
Stokely Carmichael
Diahann Carroll
Julia Carson
Benny Carter
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Emmett W. Chappelle
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Charles W. Chesnutt
Chingy
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm
Chuck D
Ciara
Joseph Cinqué
Kenneth B. Clark
Eldridge Cleaver
George Clinton
Alice Coachman
Johnny Cochran
Jewel Plummer Cobb
Natalie Cole
Nat "King" Cole
Rebecca Cole
John Coltrane
Sean "Diddy" Combs
John Conyers
Coolio
Bill Cosby
David Crosthwait, Jr.
Scatman Crothers
Paul Cuffe
Countee Cullen
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Dorothy Dandridge
Angela Davis
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.
Ernie Davis
Miles Davis
Ossie Davis
Sammy Davis Jr.
Dominique Dawes
William L. Dawson
Ruby Dee
Anita DeFrantz
Martin Robinson Delany
Destiny's Child
Robert Nathaniel Dett
Gail Devers
Eric Dickerson
Bo Diddley
Harrison Dillard
David Dinkins
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Tony Dorsett
Thomas A. Dorsey
Frederick Douglass
James "Buster" Douglas
Dr. Dre
Charles Richard Drew
W. E. B. Du Bois
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Katherine Dunham
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
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Marian Wright Edelman
Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds
Clarence L. Elder
Lee Elder
Joycelyn Elders
Duke Ellington
Missy Elliott
Ralph Ellison
Philip Emeagwali
Julius "Dr. J" Erving
Lee Evans
Medgar Evers
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Patrick Ewing
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James Farmer
Louis Farrakhan
Cecil Fielder
Ella Fitzgerald
Laurence Fishburne
Lil' Fizz
Curt Flood
Evan Forde
George Foreman
Redd Foxx
Aretha Franklin
John Hope Franklin
Joe Frazier
Walt Frazier
John Freeman
Morgan Freeman
The Fugees
Charles Fuller
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Clarence "Big House" Gaines
Alonzo "Jake" Gaither
The Game
Henry Highland Garnet
Marcus Garvey
Cito Gaston
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Marvin Gaye
George Gervin
Althea Gibson
Bob Gibson
Josh Gibson
Dizzy Gillespie
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni
Danny Glover
Whoopi Goldberg
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Berry Gordy, Jr.
Louis Gossett, Jr.
Joe Greene
Greensboro Four
Pam Grier
Ken Griffey, Jr.
Archie Griffin
Florence Griffith Joyner
Archibald H. Grimke
Tony Gwynn
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Marvin Hagler
Alex Haley
Lloyd Augustus Hall
Prince Hall
Fannie Lou (Townsend) Hamer
Lisa Gay Hamilton
Jupiter Hammon
Lionel Hampton
Herbie Hancock
William Christopher Handy
Lorraine Hansberry
Ben Harper
Barbara C. Harris
Franco Harris
William H. Hastie
Richard Gordon Hatcher
Elvin Hayes
Roland Hayes
Thomas Hearns
Rickey Henderson
Jimi Hendrix
Matthew Henson
Leon A. Higginbotham, Jr.
Anita Hill
Lauryn Hill
Gregory Hines
Billie Holiday
Larry Holmes
Evander Holyfield
John Lee Hooker
Bell Hooks
Benjamin Hooks
Lena Horne
Charles Hamilton Houston
Whitney Houston
William DeHart Hubbard
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
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Ice Cube
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Samuel Elmer Imes
Roy Innis
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Bo Jackson
Janet Jackson
Jesse Jackson
Mahalia Jackson
Maynard Jackson
Michael Jackson
Reggie Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson
Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr.
LeBron James
Judith Jamison
Ja Rule
Jay-Z
Eve Jeffers
Mae Jemison
Thomas L. Jennings
Derek Jeter
Ervin "Magic" Johnson
Jack Johnson
James Weldon Johnson
John Johnson
Johnnie Johnson
Judy Johnson
Michael Johnson
Rafer Johnson
Robert Johnson
Robert L. Johnson
Deacon Jones
Frederick McKinley Jones
James Earl Jones
Lois Mailou Jones
Marion Jones
Mike Jones
Quincy Jones
Roy Jones Jr.
Scott Joplin
Barbara Jordan
Michael Jordan
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Percy Julian
Johanna July
Ernest Everett Just
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Maulana Karenga
Jason Kidd
Lil' Kim
Jamaica Kincaid
B.B. King
Coretta Scott King
Don King
Martin Luther King Jr.
Anna Kingsley
Eartha Kitt
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John Mercer Langston
Nella Larsen
Eriq La Salle
Queen Latifah
Lewis Howard Latimer
Martin Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence
Huddie Ledbetter
Buck Leonard
Sugar Ray Leonard
Bill Lewis
Carl Lewis
Edmonia Lewis
John R. Lewis
Reginald Lewis
Sonny Liston
Earl Lloyd
Alain Locke
Greenbury Logan
Joe Louis
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Ludacris
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Bernie Mac
Malcolm X
Karl Malone
Moses Malone
Wynton Marsalis
Thurgood Marshall
Willie Mays
Bob McAdoo
Henry Cecil Ransom McBay
Willie McCovey
Elijah J. McCoy
Hattie McDaniel
Floyd McKissick
Butterfly McQueen
James Meredith
Kweisi Mfume
Cheryl Miller
Charles Mingus
Arthur Mitchell
Joe Morgan
Thelonious Monk
Warren Moon
Archie Moore
Michael Moorer
Garrett Augustus Morgan
Toni Morrison
Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton
Mos Def
Edwin Moses
Marion Motley
Robert Russa Moton
Benjamin Franklin Muhammad
Elijah Muhammad
Calvin Murphy
Eddie Murphy
Eddie Murray
Mya
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Nas
Nelly
Aaron Neville
Huey Newton
Thandie Newton
Fayard Nicholas
Jessye Norman
Eleanor Holmes Norton
The Notorious B.I.G.
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Barack Obama
Hakeem Olajuwon
Shaquille O'Neal
Outkast
Jesse Owens
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Master P
Alan Page
Satchel Paige
Charlie "Bird" Parker
Gordon Parks
Rosa Parks
Floyd Patterson
Antwan Patton (Big Boi)
Walter Payton
Calvin Peete
Ann Petry
P. B. S. Pinchback
Jada Pinkett-Smith
Horace Pippin
Scottie Pippen
Leonard Pitts, Jr.
Homer Plessy
Sidney Poitier
Fritz Pollard
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Colin Powell
Mike Powell
Leontyne Price
Prince
Richard Pryor
Gabriel Prosser
Kirby Puckett
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Maurice F. Rabb, Jr.
Gertrude "Ma" Rainey
Joseph Rainey
A. Philip Randolph
Virginia Randolph
Charles Rangel
Otis Redding
Willis Reed
Gloria Reuben
Hiram R. Revels
Butch Reynolds
Ving Rhames
Condoleezza Rice
Jerry Rice
Pretty Ricky
Norbert Rillieux
Oscar Robertson
Paul Robeson
David Robinson
Eddie Robinson
Frank Robinson
Holly Robinson-Peete
Jackie Robinson
Smokey Robinson
Sugar Ray Robinson
Chris Rock
Dennis Rodman
Esther Rolle
Howard E. Rollins, Jr.
Lil' Romeo
Diana Ross
Carl Rowan
Darius Rucker
Wilma Rudolph
Bill Russell
John Russwurm
Bayard Rustin
Busta Rhymes
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Ignatius Sancho
Barry Sanders
Deion Sanders
Augusta Christine Fells Savage
Gale Sayers
Dred Scott
Seal
Bobby Seale
Myra C. Selby
Tupac Shakur
Ntozake Shange
Fred Shuttlesworth
Charlie Sifford
Nina Simone
O.J. Simpson
Sinbad
Robert Smalls
Bessie Smith
Emmitt Smith
Lee Smith
Ozzie Smith
Will Smith
Wesley Snipes
Joel Elias Spingarn
Leon Spinks
Latrell Sprewell
Willie Stargell
C. K. (Charles Kenzie) Steele
William Grant Still
Carl B. Stokes
Moorfield Storey
Lynn Swann
Howard Swanson
Sheryl Swoopes
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Henry Tanner
Lawrence Taylor
Mary Eliza Church Terrell
Clarence Thomas
Frank Thomas
Isiah Thomas
Thurman Thomas
John Thompson
Wallace Thurman
Tone-Loc
Jean Toomer
Pierre Toussaint
Virgil Garnett Trice, Jr.
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Chris Tucker
Charles Henry Turner
Tina Turner
Nat Turner
Cicely Tyson
Mike Tyson
Wyomia Tyus
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Gene Upshaw
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Luther Vandross
Gustavus Vassa
Sarah Vaughan
Mo Vaughn
Denmark Vesey
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Dwyane Wade
Jersey Joe Walcott
Alice Walker
Herschel Walker
Maggie Lena (Mitchell) Walker
Sarah "Madame C J Walker" Walker
Thomas "Fats" Waller
Charlie Ward
Booker T. Washington
Denzel Washington
Dinah Washington
Harold Washington
Muddy Waters
Faye Wattleton
J. C. Watts
Damon Wayans
Keenan Ivory Wayans
Carl Weathers
Robert C. Weaver
Junior Wells
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Cornel West
Dorothy West
Kanye West
Phyllis Wheatley
Forest Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker
Bill White
Reggie White
Walter White
John Edgar Wideman
Lenny Wilkens
Dominique Wilkins
Roy Wilkins
Daniel Hale Williams
George Washington Williams
Jayson Williams
Peter Williams, Jr.
Peter Williams, Sr.
Serena Williams
Vanessa Williams
Venus Williams
Fred Williamson
John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson
August Wilson
Cassandra Wilson
Flip Wilson
Dave Winfield
Paul Winfield
Oprah Winfrey
Howlin' Wolf
Stevie Wonder
Granville T. Woods
Tiger Woods
Carter G. Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson
Alfre Woodard
Richard Wright
Wu-Tang Clan
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Malcolm X
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Andrew Young
Lester Young
Roger Arliner Young
Whitney M. Young, Jr.
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James Van Der Zee
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