Kamala Harris
Oakland-born former Vice President of the United States.
Oakland, CA, USA
@blackwikiKameron Bain
Atlanta-based filmmaker; story creator and producer of the ALLBLK Original 'Funny Thing About Love' (2026) under his Bouldercrest Films banner.
Atlanta, GA, USA
@blackwikiKelvin Spencer
Kelvin Spencer, known as Kelvin Codes, is a software engineer and founder of black.wiki Inc, using tech education and community building to bring more Black people into the tech industry.
@blackwikiKendrick Lamar
Compton rapper; Pulitzer Prize winner for DAMN.
Compton, CA, USA
@blackwikiKiese Laymon
Jackson, MS-born essayist and novelist; author of Heavy: An American Memoir.
Houston, TX, USA
@blackwikiKiller Mike
Atlanta rapper, podcaster, and entrepreneur; one half of Run the Jewels.
Atlanta, GA, USA
@blackwikiL. Douglas Wilder
First Black US governor since Reconstruction β governor of Virginia 1990β94.
Richmond, VA, USA
@blackwikiLecrae
Houston-born Christian rapper; first artist to win a Grammy for Best Gospel Album as a rapper.
Houston, TX, USA
@blackwikiLee Roy Selmon
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Hall of Fame defensive end and Tampa civic figure.
Tampa, FL, USA
@blackwikiLil Wayne
New Orleans rapper and Cash Money Records artist; one of the most prolific MCs of the 2000s and 2010s.
New Orleans, LA, USA
@blackwikiLorraine Hansberry
Playwright whose A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a Black woman on Broadway.
Chicago, IL, USA
@blackwikiLouis Armstrong
New Orleans-born trumpeter, vocalist, and bandleader who invented the modern jazz solo.
New Orleans, LA, USA
@blackwikiMadam C.J. Walker
Hair-care entrepreneur considered the first self-made female millionaire in the US.
Delta, LA, USA
@blackwikiMae Jemison
Decatur-born physician and the first Black woman in space β STS-47 Endeavour, 1992.
Decatur, AL, USA
@blackwikiMaggie L. Walker
Richmond banker β first woman of any race to charter a bank in the US.
Richmond, VA, USA
@blackwikiMahalia 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
@blackwikiMarion Barry
Four-term mayor of Washington, DC; civil-rights organizer turned politician.
Washington, DC, USA
@blackwikiMartin Luther King Jr.
Civil rights leader, minister, and Nobel laureate based in Atlanta who led the nonviolent movement that dismantled Jim Crow.
Atlanta, GA, USA
@blackwikiMary Church Terrell
Educator, suffragist, and co-founder of the NAACP who fought for Black civil rights and women's suffrage simultaneously β and kept fighting well into her nineties.
@blackwikiMary McLeod Bethune
Educator who founded what became Bethune-Cookman University and advised four US presidents.
Daytona Beach, FL, USA
@blackwikiMary McLeod Bethune (DC years)
Founder of Bethune-Cookman and adviser to FDR from her DC Council House.
Washington, DC, USA
@blackwikiMary Seacole
Jamaican-born nurse and entrepreneur who funded her own passage to the Crimean War front and ran a hotel-hospital behind the lines when the British War Office turned her away.
@blackwikiMaster P
New Orleans rapper and entrepreneur; founder of No Limit Records.
New Orleans, LA, USA
@blackwikiMaxine Waters
Long-serving California congresswoman; chair of the Financial Services Committee.
Los Angeles, CA, USA
@blackwiki