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- Morgan's legendary football, basketball and track coach
- 4-time US National Judo Champion, a 2004 Judo Olympian
- Academy award nominated actress ("Hustle and Flow", "Curious case of Benjamin Button", "Something New", "Smokin Ace's", "Talk To Me")
- Ambassador to Benin
- Ambassador to Togo, Malaysia and Mauritius
- Anchor, CNN
- Attorney, Senior Managing Director with Lazard Freres & Co. LLC, former president of the Urban League
- Band - "If I Ever Fall in Love"
- Brigadier General, first African-American general in the U.S. Army
- CBS News, 60 Minutes correspondent-New York
- Canadian Football League defensive end (Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Montreal Alouettes, Calgary Stampeders)
- Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- Deputy Prime Minister of Jamaica
- District Judge, Western district of Oklahoma, first African-American woman U.S. attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, first African-American woman elected to the Oklahoma Senate.
- ESPNU Football analyst, NFL quarterback , Maryland State Delegate
- Emmy award-winning actress, ("The Josephine Baker Story", "Stompin' At The Savoy", "Head of State", "Eve's Bayou")
- Filmmaker
- First African-American dean of the Albany Law School
- Former BET Personality and actor
- Former Florida Supreme Court Judge, first African-American in the south to win a statewide election
- Founder, Former President & Chief Executive Officer Centennial One, Inc.; first African-American woman to earn an MBA at Harvard Business School
- General, U.S. Air Force, Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and Commander, Air Force Material Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
- Georgia State Senator
- German literature
- Grammy Award-winning songwriter/producer ("Saturday Night Fever")
- Grammy award-winning gospel singer, pianist, and arranger
- Grammy nominated music producer, musician and songwriter, a/k/a, Donnie Scantz
- Grammy winning record producer and song writer
- Judge, Miami-Dade County Court
- Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia
- Major League Baseball player, (Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Braves, California Angels), first African-American to sign with the Detroit Tigers
- Member of Parliament and Shadow Minister for Health and Seniors (2003-present); founder of Bermuda's first school of dance, Jackson School of the Performing Arts (1953); and author of "The Bermuda Gombey: Bermuda's Unique Dance Heritage" (1987) and a companion children's book "Bermuda Gombey Boy" credited with re-igniting popular interest in Bermuda's form of indigenous African dance.
- Member of the New York State Assembly. Son of Civil Rights leader - Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
- Michigan Third Circuit Court judge
- Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Jamaica
- Minister of Health, Jamaica
- Minister of Health, Guyana
- Miss Black District of Columbia USA 2008
- Miss Black Virginia America 2009
- Miss District of Columbia America 2008
- Music journalist, photographer, promoter, NPR music commentator
- NFL cornerback (New York Giants)
- NFL cornerback (Saint Louis Rams)
- NFL defensive end (New Orleans Saints, Baltimore Ravens, San Francisco Forty-Niners)
- NFL safety (Indianapolis Colts)
- NFL/WLAF receiver, New York Giants, Frankfurt Galaxy, assistant coach, Texas Southern University
- Oscar-nominated filmmaker
- Ph.D. Prime Minister of Grenada
- Pierre-Noel, artist and educator
- Premier and Minister of Tourism and Transport of Bermuda
- President and CEO of International Media Content, the largest sports rights company in the Caribbean
- President, Guyana
- Professor - African American writer, philosopher, educator
- Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the Washington Post
- Representative for New York's sixth congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives
- San Francisco District Attorney
- Senior Judge currently Judge Superior Court of the District of Columbia
- South Carolina State Representative
- The First Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He was also instrumental in them gaining their Independence. He was a noted Caribbean historian, and a Howard rofessor from1939- 1944.
- United States Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, United States Ambassador
- United States Senator representing Pennsylvania (1991-95)
- actor ("Little Man", "White Chicks")
- actor ("Stomp the Yard", "Jarhead", "All souls: Dia delos muertos", "This Christmas")
- actor ("The Cosby Show, "Martin")
- actor (Two Can Play that Game, Barbershop, Kangaroo Jack, "The Shield," "Law & Order.")
- actor and activist
- actor, ("Get On The Bus", "Grey's Anatomy")
- actor, ("Tyler Perry's House of Payne", He is now engaged to ANTM winner Eva Marcille (formally known as Eva Pigford)
- actress ("Hustle and Flow", "Idlewild")
- actress ("Rent-The Movie", "The Devil Wears Prada", "Grindhouse")
- actress , first African-American actress to win the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play ("Raisin")
- actress Lifetime Television "Army Wives"
- actress, ("The Cosby Show")
- actress, ("The Jeffersons"), also Lenny Kravitz's mother
- actress, ("The Steve Harvey Show", "The Game", "Two Can Play That Game", "Something New")
- anthropologist and author
- astrophysicist, director of NASA's "Mars Exploration Program Education and Public Outreach," chairman of Microsoft West Africa.
- author
- author and journalist
- author and poet
- award winning blogger
- award-winning novelist
- born Chloe Anthony Wofford, Nobel Prize for Literature
- civil rights activist, founder and first leader of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
- co-founder of the first law school in the world founded by women, first woman to be appointed notary public by the President of the United States
- conservative commentator; television producer, WXIA-TV Atlanta
- dancer, actress
- dean emeritus Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University, fifth permanent dean of the University of Louisville's College of Business and Public Administration
- educator and pyschologist who conducted the 'doll research' for the Brown vs. Board of Education case
- executive vice president, Barber-Scotia College
- filmmaker and director , "The Wire"
- first African American ever elected to the Texas Supreme Court
- first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in bacteriology
- first African-American graduate of Western Michigan College, first African-American female to attend Oxford, first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in government and international relations from Harvard University, one of the first women members of the Department of History at Howard University, expert in diplomatic history, professor 1942-77
- first African-American to serve as Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court
- first African-American Chief Judge for the Missouri Chourt of Appeals Eastern District, first African-American male to be appointed a judge in St. Louis
- first African-American woman to receive a doctorate in musicology from Oxford University
- first African-American elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
- first African-American elected to the United States Senate
- first African-American mayor of New York City
- first African-American radio sportscaster; co-owner of the first African-American owned and operated station in New York
- first African-American to hold the Miss Texas title, first runner-up Miss America 2007
- first African-American to earn a doctorate in chemistry.
- first African-American president of Gannon University. Former Dean of College of Arts and Sciences at Xavier University of Louisiana
- first African-American judge in Arlington County, VA.
- first African-American to be elected to the Connecticut State Senate.
- first African-American to serve in the New Jersey Senate
- first black woman to cast a vote in a national election
- first elected mayor of Washington, D.C.
- first female national president of the NAACP
- first native Governor-General of Barbados
- fmr. member Maryland State Senate, first African-American to run for Lt. Governor of Maryland
- former Dean of the College of Medicine from 1970-1979
- former Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, former Delegate from the United States Virgin Islands to the United States House of Representatives
- former Major League Baseball player, hitting coach for the Philadelphia Phillies
- former NBA player
- former National Football League Defensive Back
- former Secretary of Veterans Affairs, former Secretary of the Army
- former United States Representative from Tennessee
- former executive director of the NAACP
- former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
- former president of Fisk University; former Assistant Dean, Howard University School of Law and Harvard University Law School; executive director, Cities in Schools
- founder The Angelrock Project,incorporater of styleWORKS organization, and creator and manager of Champions for Children Committee. Compton-Rock is the wife of comediam Chris Rock and was highlighted for her work in the lives of African- Americans on CNNs "Black in America II"
- head men's basketball coach at Mount Saint Mary's University
- head men's basketball coach at the University of Georgia
- holds more than 130 chemical patents
- jazz musician
- jazz pianist
- jazz saxophone
- jazz singer
- journalist and editor
- late 19th century poet
- mathematician, scientist, sociologist, first African-American admitted to Johns Hopkins University; Dean of Howard University's College of Arts and Sciences (1907-1919); established sociology department at Howard
- mayor, Rochester, NY.
- member of a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, actress, author.
- member, United States House of Representatives (1883 to 1887) representing North Carolina.
- music producer, also known as "Puffy", "P. Money", "Puff Daddy", "P. Diddy", and "Diddy"
- musician and composer. Author of over 700 songs including the former state song of Virginia.
- national director of the NAACP Youth and College Division. Finance Director, African-American Affairs for Obama for America Presidential Campaign.
- noted NASA astrophysicist, first African American woman to earn a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan's Department of Astronomy.
- novelist and poet
- on-air personality
- on-air personality - Entertainment show Extra
- one of the first African American graduates of Harvard Business School and is also credited with creating the concept of target marketing
- one of the foremost specialists in organ transplant medicine in the United States. Professor at Howard University College of Medicine, 1973- present.
- opera singer
- opera singer, received Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006
- ophthalmologist, the first African-American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention.
- owner Simeus Foods, International
- painter, printmaker and sculptor
- percussionist, currently tours with Prince
- physician (obstetrics and gynecology) and humanitarian, received Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964
- playwright and screenwriter
- poet and playwright of the Harlem Renaissance;
- poet, essayist, and journalist
- president Howard University
- professional athlete-track and field
- professional soccer player
- quarterbacks coach for the Chicago Bears
- rapper, member of hip hop group Brand Nubian
- recording artist (singer & bassist)
- reporter, CBS News
- reporter, ESPNEWS
- sculptor and printmaker
- second African-American to earn a doctorate in chemistry, second African-American to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences
- second woman to be ordained by the Anglican Diocese of the Bahamas
- singer
- singer, husband of singer Chante Moore
- singer, musician and record producer
- sociologist
- songwriter and entertainment marketing consultant, widow of Louis A. McCall, drummer and founder of Con Funk Shun
- sportscaster, CBS Sports
- stage director, playwright and educator
- talk show host (BET,The Ananda Lewis Show)
- the current Provost and Executive Vice President of Manhattan College
- the first African American woman on Florida Supreme Court
- the first African American woman lawyer
- writer, teacher, literary critic, poet laureat for Washington, D.C., professor 1929- around 1969
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