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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Mati Diop is the first black female director in the Cannes competition after the postproduction on her film Atlantics in 2019.

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Kenneth Frazier is the first black man to lead a major pharmaceutical company after becoming the chairman and CEO of the pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. in 2011.

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In 1969 Clarence “Skip” Ellis became the first black man to earn a doctorate degree in computer science after enrolling at MIT.

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Pat McGrath became the first black makeup artist to win a Founders award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) in 2017.

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Russell Wendell Simmons is the chair and CEO of Rush Communications, he co-founded the hip-hop music label Def Jam Recordings and created the clothing fashion lines Phat Farm, Argyleculture, and Tantris.

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