Marlon Riggs

Marlon Riggs 1957 – 1994, filmmaker, educator, poet, and activist.

Marsha Warfield

Marsha Warfield born 1954 actress and comic.

Paul Winfield 1939 – 2004, actor.

Robin Roberts born 1960 is a television newscaster.

Lee Daniels born 1959 is a writer, director, and producer.

Toshi Reagon born 1964 is a musician, composer, curator, and producer.

Little Richard born 1932 is a musician, singer, songwriter, and actor.

Roxane Gay born 1974 is a writer, author, editor and professor.

Patriots-Ian Polk was born in 1973 is a filmmaker, writer, director and producer.

Karen Williams first openly black lesbian comic to discuss queer issues in her act starting in 1983.