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Angela Bassett

Alluring audiences with emotionally tinged performances is Angela Bassett’s signature. She personifies dignity and pride whenever she performs.

Sherri Shepherd

Whether on stage or screen, Daytime Emmy Award-winner Sherri Shepherd’s magnetic personality and hilarious sense of humor never fails to delight audiences.

Kym Whitley

Raised in both Khartoum, Sudan and Cleveland, Ohio, introduced to the world by Hollywood, California, Kym E. Whitley is a quadruple-threat actress.

Earl Jones

Earl Jones brings more than 25 years of media experience to his responsibility as Market President of Clear Channel Media and Entertainment Chicago

Doug Banks

The Philadelphia-born, Detroit-raised Doug Banks began his radio career as an on-air personality for his high school’s radio station.

Bishop McKenzie

Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie serves as the 117th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church.

Daniel Hale Williams

Born on January 18, 1856, in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, Daniel Hale Williams pursued a pioneering career in medicine.

Jimmy R. Jenkins Sr. Ph.D

Dr. Jimmy R. Jenkins, Sr. became the 12th President of Livingstone College in February 2006. He has earned the reputation of a “Turn Around Artist”

Tina Lewis

Tina Lewis together with her husband Harold previously owned and operated 10 McDonald’s franchises in San Diego, California.

Mayor Karen Freeman

Karen Freeman-Wilson is the immediate past CEO of The National Association of Drug Court Professionals and Executive Director of The National Drug Court Institute

Tim King

Tim King is Founder, President and CEO of Urban Prep Academies. Urban Prep Academies is a nonprofit organization that operates college-prep boys’ schools

Sojourner Truth

“Ain’t I a woman?” is just one of the many works of Isabella Baumfree, the woman we know as SOJOURNER TRUTH. Isabella, an African American abolitionist

Dwyane Wade

Dwyane Tyrone Wade Jr., known as “D-Wade” or “Flash,” was born to Dwyane Sr. and Jolinda Wade on January 17, 1982 in Chicago, Illinois.