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Harriet Tubman
Underground Railroad conductor who led 70+ enslaved people to freedom; also led an armed Civil War raid that liberated 700.
Cambridge, MD, USA
Shirley Chisholm
First Black woman elected to Congress and the first to run for a major-party presidential nomination.
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Kai Cenat
Brooklyn-born Twitch streamer; the most-subscribed streamer in the world and the first to cross 500K, 1M, and 20M followers.
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Remy Ma
Grammy-nominated Bronx rapper, Terror Squad member, and founder of the Remy Network streaming platform.
Bronx, NY, USA
Sonia Sanchez
Birmingham-born poet, activist, and a founder of the Black Arts Movement.
Birmingham, AL, USA
Bo Jackson
Bessemer-born two-sport athlete; Heisman winner and the only person ever named an All-Star in both MLB and the NFL.
Bessemer, AL, USA
Joe Frazier
Beaufort, SC-born heavyweight boxing champion.
Beaufort, SC, USA
Sojourner Truth
Abolitionist and women's rights advocate; the 1851 "Ain't I a Woman?" speech in Akron is one of the most cited Black-feminist texts in American history.
Battle Creek, MI, USA
James Brown
Barnwell, SC-born Godfather of Soul.
Barnwell, SC, USA
Thurgood Marshall
NAACP Legal Defense Fund founder, Brown v. Board litigator, and the first Black US Supreme Court Justice.
Baltimore, MD, USA
W.E.B. Du Bois
Co-founder of the NAACP and longtime Atlanta University sociologist whose 1903 Souls of Black Folk reframed Black American identity.
Atlanta, GA, USA
Hank Aaron
Hall of Fame outfielder who broke Babe Ruth's career home-run record amid sustained racist threats.
Atlanta, GA, USA
John Hope Bryant
Entrepreneur, author, and financial dignity advocate who founded Operation HOPE to bring economic literacy and banking access to underserved communities.
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Tyler Perry
New Orleans-born filmmaker whose Atlanta studio is now the largest film production facility in the country.
Atlanta, GA, USA
Spike Lee
Atlanta-born filmmaker whose Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, and BlacKkKlansman defined Black American cinema for three decades.
Atlanta, GA, USA
Bessie Coleman
Texas-born aviator — the first Black woman to earn a pilot's license, doing it in France because no US school would teach her.
Atlanta, TX, USA
Reverend C.T. Vivian
SCLC field general known for the televised confrontation with Sheriff Jim Clark on the Selma courthouse steps.
Atlanta, GA, USA
Kameron 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
Toni Cade Bambara
Atlanta-based novelist and short-story writer; The Salt Eaters (1980) and Gorilla, My Love (1972).
Atlanta, GA, USA
Killer Mike
Atlanta rapper, podcaster, and entrepreneur; one half of Run the Jewels.
Atlanta, GA, USA
Andrew Young
Civil rights lieutenant to MLK, US Congressman, UN Ambassador under Carter, and two-term Mayor of Atlanta.
Atlanta, GA, USA
Will Packer
St. Petersburg, FL-born film producer; Ride Along, Girls Trip, Straight Outta Compton.
Atlanta, GA, USA
Hosea Williams
SCLC field general who led the Bloody Sunday march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge alongside John Lewis.
Atlanta, GA, USA
Martin 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