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Stephen A. Smith
Hollis, NC / NY-raised sports commentator and First Take host.
Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Michael Jordan
Wilmington, NC-raised basketball player widely regarded as the greatest ever.
Wilmington, NC, USA
Bayard Rustin
Strategist behind the 1963 March on Washington; openly gay civil rights organizer.
West Chester, PA, USA
Steve Harvey
Welch, WV-born comedian and TV host; Family Feud, the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Welch, WV, USA
Charles Drew
Surgeon and DC native who developed large-scale blood banking and led the WWII Blood for Britain program.
Washington, DC, USA
Marion Barry
Four-term mayor of Washington, DC; civil-rights organizer turned politician.
Washington, DC, USA
Mary McLeod Bethune (DC years)
Founder of Bethune-Cookman and adviser to FDR from her DC Council House.
Washington, DC, USA
Carter G. Woodson
Founder of Negro History Week — predecessor to Black History Month — and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
Washington, DC, USA
Charles Hamilton Houston
Howard Law dean and architect of the NAACP's strategy to dismantle Plessy v. Ferguson.
Washington, DC, USA
Charles Hamilton Houston
Lawyer and educator who designed the legal strategy that brought down Plessy v. Ferguson.
Washington, DC, USA
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Long-serving non-voting Delegate to Congress from Washington, DC.
Washington, DC, USA
Duke Ellington
Washington, DC-born composer and bandleader whose 50-year career made jazz America's classical music.
Washington, DC, USA
Pharrell Williams
Virginia Beach-born producer and artist; co-founder of N.E.R.D.
Virginia Beach, VA, USA
George Washington Carver
Agricultural scientist who saved the Southern Black sharecropping economy by promoting peanuts, sweet potatoes, and crop rotation.
Tuskegee, AL, USA
Booker T. Washington
Founder of the Tuskegee Institute (1881) and the most influential Black public figure of the late 19th-century South.
Tuskegee, AL, USA
Cornel West
Tulsa-born philosopher and public intellectual; emeritus professor at Princeton and Harvard.
Tulsa, OK, USA
Nina Simone
Tryon, NC-born pianist and singer who fused classical training with civil-rights protest music.
Tryon, NC, USA
Derrick Brooks
Hall of Fame Buccaneers linebacker and 2014 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee.
Tampa, FL, USA
Ashley Canay
Tampa-based photographer and creator of TampaBlackDollar.com, a free directory of Black-owned businesses in Tampa Bay.
Tampa, FL, USA
Doug Williams
Buccaneers QB; first Black quarterback to start and win a Super Bowl.
Tampa, FL, USA
Lee Roy Selmon
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Hall of Fame defensive end and Tampa civic figure.
Tampa, FL, USA
Warrick Dunn
Buccaneers running back and Atlanta-based philanthropist; founder of Warrick Dunn Charities.
Tampa, FL, USA
Ronde Barber
Hall of Fame Buccaneers cornerback; the only player in NFL history with 20+ interceptions and 20+ sacks.
Tampa, FL, USA
Maya Angelou
Poet, memoirist, and activist who grew up in Stamps, Arkansas and went on to read at presidential inaugurations.
Stamps, AR, USA