Top 100 Identities
Alfre Woodard
Alice Walker
Amiri Baraka
Angela Bassett
Anthony Mackie
Aretha Franklin
August Wilson
Barack Obama
bell hooks
Beyoncé
Bill Cosby
Billie Holiday
Booker T. Washington
Charles Chesnutt
Charlie Parker
Common
Cornel West
Count Basie
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Danny Glover
Denzel Washington
Dizzy Gillespie
Don Cheadle
Duke Ellington
Dwayne Johnson
Ella Fitzgerald
Forest Whitaker
Frederick Douglass
Fredrick McKissack
Gwendolyn Brooks
Halle Berry
Harriet Tubman
Henry Louis Gates
Herbie Hancock
Jackie Robinson
Jacqueline Woodson
James Baldwin
James Earl Jones
James Haskins
Jay-Z
Jeffrey Wright
Jerry Pinkney
Jessye Norman
Jimi Hendrix
Joe Morton
John Coltrane
John Hope Franklin
Julius Lester
Kadir Nelson
Keith David
Langston Hughes
Leontyne Price
LeVar Burton
Louis Armstrong
Martin Luther King Jr.
Maya Angelou
Michael Jackson
Michael Jordan
Michelle Obama
Miles Davis
Morgan Freeman
Nat King Cole
Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Grimes
O. J. Simpson
Ossie Davis
Patricia McKissack
Paul Chambers
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Robeson
Phillis Wheatley
Queen Latifah
Quincy Jones
Ralph Ellison
Ray Charles
Richard Wright
Ron Carter
Rosa Parks
Samuel L. Jackson
Scott Joplin
Sidney Poitier
Snoop Dogg
Sojourner Truth
Spike Lee
Stevie Wonder
T. D. Jakes
Terrence Howard
Thelonious Monk
Thurgood Marshall
Toni Morrison
Tony Brown
Tyler Perry
Viola Davis
Virginia Hamilton
W.E.B. Du Bois
Walter Mosley
Whoopi Goldberg
Will Smith
Wynton Marsalis
Zora Neale Hurston