Mavis Pusey 1928 to 2019 was a Jamaican abstract artist.

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Martin Sostre 1923 to 2015 was a prison rights activist who served time in Attica.

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Tommie Smith, a sprinter in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico protested racial discrimination during the awards ceremony by bowing his head and raising his black gloves fist in a black power salute during the playing of the U.S. National Anthem.

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Dorothy Lee Bolden 1923 to 2005 was the founder of the National Domestic Worker’s Union of America. She was also instrumental in voter registration.

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Iddris Sandu at 16 designed software which allowed for the algorithms for Uber, Instagram, and Snapchat. He will turn 22 in 2019.

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Robert Boyd, MD. became the President and co-founder of the first professional organization for black physicians in 1895.

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Lois Mailou Jones 1905 to 1998. She was an artist and teacher. An ex pat in Paris in the 1930s and 1940s.

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The iconic cartoon character Betty Boop was inspired by a Black jazz singer in Harlem, Esther Jones and Introduced by cartoonist Max Fleischer in 1930.

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Rapper, Snoop Dogg, set the Guinness World Record for the largest Paradise cocktail on May 27, 2018.

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