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- Blind educator; principal of the Mississippi School for the Blind (en)
- Founder, president and chaplain of Saint Paul's College (Virginia); Harmon Award (en)
- Photographer, book artist; lead plaintiff in the Virginia school desegregation case Thompson v County School Board of Arlington County (en)
- First African-American to lead a major cable news network (en)
- Dark matter researcher; theoretical particle physicist at Dartmouth College; first black American to earn a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University (en)
- Attorney and land ownership advocate; purchased land and sold it back to local farmers; Gloucester County, Virginia led the nation in per capita black farm ownership in 1930 (en)
- Curator of African Art, Dallas Museum of Art; former director of the National Museum of African Art (en)
- Concert singer; first black American to sing at a U.S. presidential inauguration; founder of The Harlem School of the Arts; first black Metropolitan Opera board member (en)
- Current CFL defensive tackle; also played in the NFL for the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Jets (en)
- President of MSNBC; former Vice President of NBC News and MSNBC (en)
- Co-founder of the CIAA; founder of Hampton's Terpsichorean Dance Company; chaired Hampton's Physical Education Department (en)
- Writer at The Nation, television commentator and author; Kirkus Prize (en)
- Headed Tuskegee University's Agriculture Department; developed the Greenwood Business District in Tuskegee, which served as a model for the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma (en)
- Newspaper editor, journalist, poet, novelist, and political organizer (en)
- Missionary, ethnographer and explorer; first Westerner to enter the Kingdom of Kuba; reported on the Belgian atrocities in the Congo; pioneering African art collector; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in England (en)
- Current NFL linebacker, Jacksonville Jaguars, Detroit Lions (en)
- NASA mathematician and aeronautical engineer; supersonic flight and sonic boom researcher featured in the book Hidden Figures; Congressional Gold Medal (en)
- Addiction psychiatrist, physician, and immunopathologist; professor at Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, and NYU Langone Health; elected to the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association (en)
- Has star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; Academy Award in costume design for Black Panther (en)
- NASA human computer and its first black female engineer; namesake of the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters in Washington; Congressional Gold Medal (en)
- Rapper, member of EARTHGANG and co-founder of Spillage Village (en)
- Harlem Renaissance muralist and founder of the Art Department at Texas Southern University (en)
- President of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies; election scholar, George Washington University Law School (en)
- Pioneer in nutrition and child development; first woman of color to earn a Ph.D. in nutrition; instrumental in creating the Head Start program; namesake of Hampton's Flemmie Kittrell Hall (en)
- A&R and disc jockey for Justin Bieber (en)
- Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, New York (en)
- Award-winning track athlete (en)
- Seventh president of Fisk University and president of the United Negro College Fund (en)
- CFL football player, Hamilton Tiger-Cats (en)
- Civil rights and homelessness activist (en)
- Current NFL defensive tackle, New York Jets (en)
- Early 20th-century wood carver (en)
- Early sickle cell anemia researcher (en)
- Educator, civic leader, and suffragette (en)
- Emmy Award-winning actress, comedian and writer (en)
- Entrepreneur, philanthropist and physician (en)
- Librarian and president of the North Carolina Negro Library Association (en)
- First Black female mayor of St. Louis (en)
- First Native American physician (en)
- Former NBA player (en)
- Former NFL defensive back (en)
- Former NFL defensive end (en)
- Former NFL defensive tackle (en)
- Former NFL linebacker (en)
- Former NFL offensive lineman (en)
- Former NFL running back (en)
- Former NFL wide receiver (en)
- Former NFL wide receiver and return specialist (en)
- Former governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands (en)
- Inventor, primarily of microphones (en)
- First African-American nurse to serve as Surgeon General of the United States (en)
- Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey (en)
- Member of Ohio House of Representatives (en)
- Mother of Martin Luther King Jr. (en)
- President of the Baltimore Ravens (en)
- Professional basketball player (en)
- Rapper, signed to Dreamville Records in 2017 (en)
- Secretary of Aging for the State of Maryland (en)
- Former U.S. Ambassador to The Gambia, Senegal and Romania (en)
- Writer and activist (en)
- Field agent for the Jeanes Fund and Slater Fund and U.S. government consultant; reports helped establish hundreds of training schools; Spingarn Medal (en)
- Casting director; first black American to win an Emmy Award for casting; The Tuskegee Airmen, Harlem Nights, In Living Color (en)
- Composer, playwright, poet, pianist, organist, and keyboardist; wrote over 500 songs, including "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" (en)
- Chief Executive Officer of Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless (en)
- Prime minister of Eswatini; CEO of Nedbank Eswatini and CEO of MTN Eswatini (en)
- Engineer; Lead of Planetary Protection for the Mars 2020 Mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (en)
- Author, illustrator, film artist; painted the King Chad mural in Disneyland (en)
- Black & gay rights activist; founder of Native Son Now; former Afropunk Festival chief content officer and editor-in-chief of Vibe and Giant magazines (en)
- One of the Big Six leaders in the Gold Coast's struggle for independence from Britain; served as Ghana's first Minister for Trade and Labor, first Minister for Justice and first Minister for Foreign Affairs (en)
- Sociologist and anthropologist; created the first African and African American studies program at Stanford University (en)
- Minstrel show impresario; toured Britain, South Africa and Australia (en)
- Founder of Creole restaurant chain Frenchy's Chicken in Houston, Texas (en)
- Attorney; counsel and general manager for the Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company (en)
- Educator, author, including his autobiography Up from Slavery, orator, first president of Tuskegee Institute , founder of the National Business League, prominent civil rights and racial “uplift” advocate, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community. (en)
- US District Court Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Delaware (en)
- One of the first African-American disc jockeys in St. Louis (en)
- Co-founder of Inner City Broadcasting Corporation; investor in the New York Amsterdam News and the Apollo Theater; producer of It's Showtime at the Apollo (en)
- Grammy Award-winning record producer and disc jockey (en)
- "Queen mother" of the Civil Rights Movement; developed citizenship classes that enabled black Southerners to register and vote; SCLC board; American Book Award (en)
- Professor of theology and Africana Studies at the University of Notre Dame (en)
- Founder of The Chicago Defender and of the annual Bud Billiken Day Parade in Chicago (en)
- Stage manager and personality on the Late Show with David Letterman (en)
- Pioneering African-American mathematician; chaired the Mathematics Department at Howard University (en)
- Cherokee mask maker, translator, and cultural historian (en)
- President Emeritus of Tuskegee University; namesake of the Tuskegee Airmen training site Moton Field; advisor to five U.S. presidents; Spingarn Medal; Harmon Award (en)
- Grammy Award-winning record producer; co-founder and CEO of WRKSHP (en)
- Environmental ecologist and founder of Black in Marine Science (en)
- Former NBA player, Washington Bullets, Detroit Pistons, New Jersey Nets; WNBA Detroit Shock Head Coach (en)
- Early trainer of black librarians; first black American to head a public library; Hampton's Library School was a continuation of his training program (en)
- First black graduate of Cornell Law School; member of the Virginia House of Delegates (en)
- Former chairman and CEO of Infor; former President of Oracle Corporation (en)
- Antigua and Barbuda Ambassador to the United Nations and to the United States (en)
- Fourth president of Tuskegee University and president of the United Negro College Fund (en)
- owner and publisher of the largest chain of black newspapers in the U.S.; founder of the National Newspaper Publishers Association; Presidential Citizens Medal (en)
- Radio Hall of Fame; disc jockey and host of The Breakfast Club (en)
- First black publicist in Hollywood; executive editor of the Los Angeles Sentinel; sports editor for Jet and Ebony magazines (en)
- President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Heinz Award (en)
- Musician; best known for being the lead vocalist of Death Grips (en)
- Sports broadcaster; ESPN SportsCenter anchor and Showtime Championship Boxing host (en)
- Civil rights attorney; first woman appointed to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Spingarn Medal (en)
- Former head football coach at Norfolk State University, 1974–1983; former head coach of track team and athletic director at Norfolk State (en)
- Actress; Batwoman, God Friended Me, Always a Bridesmaid, The Family Business; first Black actor to wear the Batsuit (en)
- Former weatherman for Good Morning America, 1986–1998 (en)
- Track and field Olympian representing Nigeria at the 2020 Olympics (en)
- Painter and art historian; founder of the International Review of African American Art; first black American female to earn a Ph.D. in fine art and art history (en)
- Federal Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (en)
- Former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo and Nigeria (en)
- Kenya Minister of State, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister of Education; cabinet of Kenya's first president Jomo Kenyatta (en)
- Participant in the 2014 Little League World Series and 2014 AP Women's Athlete of the Year; began playing for Hampton softball in the 2020 season (en)
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