Shaneka Hammond Brown opened SHB International Hair Academy School of Cosmetology. The facility is the first black owned beauty school in Horry County South Carolina as of 2019.

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Walter White (1893 – 1955) led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for almost a quarter of a century, 1931–1955, after joining the organization as an investigator in 1918.

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Lana Ogilvie became the first Black CoverGirl in 1992.

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Bob Moses is known for his work as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on voter education and registration in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, and his co-founding of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in the 1960’s.

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Margaret Walker, 1908 to 1998, was a poet, professor and novelist.

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Nipsey Hussle 1985 – 2019 (often stylized as Nipsey Hu$$le), was a rapper who found a co-working space named “Vector 90” and a clothing store “Marathon Clothing”, in Los Angeles, California.

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Maria Borges was the first black model to wear her natural hair on the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show runway in 2016.

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Sean “Diddy” Combs is in charge of all of the business operations under Bad Boy Entertainment Worldwide, which includes clothing lines, restaurants, and a movie production company starting in 1993.

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Ntozake Shange 1948 – 2018, poet, author, feminist. Best known for her play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf

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Robert Frederick Smith became the founder, chairman, and CEO of the private equity firm Vista Equity Partners 2000 and was ranked by Forbes as the 163rd richest person in America in 2018.

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