Professor/Poet , African American Studies and American Studies, Yale University. Incoming Chair, Department of African American Studies! Selected to compose and deliver poem at Barack Obama?s Presidential Inauguration @ the U.S. Capitol on 01/20/2009!

Singer/Musician

singer

Actress, - White Chicks - Drive - Trick 'R Treat -

American author (1924-87), 'Go Tell it on the Mountain', 'Notes of a Native Son'. Civil rights figure

Singer/Musician

Actress: Alias, Mr.3000, The Lazarus Child, The Rosa Parks Story, The Score, What's Love Got To Do With It?, Supernova, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Contact, Waiting to Exhale, Strange Days, Vampire in Brooklyn, Malcolm X, Ryan's Hope

American Singer, Composer and Actor born 1927.'Banana Boat Song','Island in the Sun','Coconut Woman','Hava Naghila','Angelina','Come Back Liza','Cotton Fields like Home','Matilda','Try to Remember', 'Jump In The Line', WWII Veteran

Film Score Composer

Finding Forrester, Take the Lead, Coach Carter,Stop Loss

Jazz saxophonist great

American Female Journalist, Critic, Film-Maker - Director - Movie - 'La Madrina: The Savage Life of Lorine Padilla' (2020), 'Some Girls' (2017), 'Bling: A Planet Rock' (2007). TV Special - 'Generation Dead' (2022). Novel - 'Bird of Paradise..' (2013)

Rapper/Producer/Actor/Clothing designer

Singer/Musician

Actor-Chicago Med

Actor: The Thing, Platoon, Missing in Action III, Off Limits, They Live, Road House, Always, Marked for Death, Article 99, The Puppet Masters, The Quick and the Dead, Eye for an Eye, Armageddon, Pitch Black, ER, The Cape, Community

Entertainer/Singer - The Candy Man, What Kind Of Fool Am I?, Something's Gotta Give, I've Gotta Be Me, The Shelter Of Your Arms. Actor - Ocean's 11, Porgy & Bess, Sweet Charity, Robin & The 7 Hoods, Salt & Pepper 1-2, Cannonball Run 1-2. Rat Pack member

adult film star

1993 rock and roll hall of fame inductee

Former college/ABA/NBA guard; played for Loyola University, Pacers & Knicks; All-American; member of Loyola University 1962-63 NCAA championship team

British actor born 1928. Frank Ryan on 'Ryans Hope', Dr.Paul Stewart on 'As The World Turns', 'Amityville Horror', 'Mommie Dearest', 'The Black Marble', 'Looker'

Seton Hall Basketball Star

Freshman college basketbal player at NC State

Actress: Amen, The Wayan's Bros., The Shield, Method & Red, Rhythm & Blues, Nutty Professor II, Along Came a Spider, Minority Report, Presumed Innocent, One Fine Day, Dear God, Set It Off, Mr. Jones, Class, The Fan, Street Smart

Current NBA Player For The Hawks, Former Texas Longhorn PG

Author

Former NYPD cop actor in The French Connection, 'Det. Lefronskyk' in CRUISIN

movie producer

American rapper

R&B Singer - Why Do Fools Fall In Love?, I Want You To Be My Girl, The ABC's Of Love, Out In The Cold Again, Who Can Explain?, I Promise To Remember, Goody Goody

singer

Singer/Musician

Actress: Murphy's Law, Tightrope, Maurie, The Louis Armstrong Story, The Boy Who Could Fly, Heart and Souls, The Thirteenth Floor, The Golden Girls, Quincy, Friends, Murder She Wrote

Voice Actor, 'Bear In The Big Blue House'

blues-folk singer (frankie & albert)

Member of hip hop group Run-DMC

Labor leader

Playwright - Death Of A Salesman, The Crucible, A View From The Bridge, After The Fall. Screenwriter - The Misfits (based on his short story), The Story Of G.I. Joe, The Hook. Married to actress Marilyn Monroe (1956-1961)

One of the last great dancers of the Lindyhoppers of the 1930s/40s, born in 1919. Still teaches and makes appearances around the world. Known as the 'Queen of Swing.'

Rapper

famous singer

Guitarist - Rage Against The Machine/Audioslave/guest starred on Star Trek Insurrection and Star Trek Voyager

Actor (b: 1968) - House Of Payne, The Cosby Show ('90-'92 as Lance), New Jack City, Jason's Lyric (title role), Vampire In Brooklyn, CB4, The Perfect Storm, The Tuskegee Airmen, The Walking Dead '95

Actor & Restaurateur: Bureau Chief Frank Cubitosi on The Sopranos

Actor, plays Robbie Hansen on Providence

I Still Know What You Did last Summer, O, Dawn of the Dead, High School High,ER

Singer/Musician

Actor/Dancer - Fame (Leroy in both the film & TV series)

Vocalist

children's author /illus. (tar beach, aunt harriett)

Washington Sentors 1940Died 1/4/2004

Singer/Musician

Children's Book Author

African-American poet and performer

singer/songerwriter

former college/NBA center/power forward; played for University of Syracuse, Wizards, Twolves and Hawks; #12 pick overall 2000 NBA Draft

Broadway composer of 'Jekyll & Hyde', 'The Scarlet Pimpernel', 'The Civil War', 'Camille Claudel', 'Dracula', etc...

The Bit Hit, Dead Presidents, Almost Heroes, Ray