Aaron McGruder

Aaron McGruder

male, 35 years old
Columbia, WMUC, Oakland Mills High School, African-American, University of Maryland, suburb…AfricanAmericanculture, African American, American
Aaron McGruder (born May 29, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American cartoonist best known for writing and drawing "The Boondocks", a Universal...
J Dilla

J Dilla

male, deceased (2006)
pharrell williams, common, AfricanAmericanculture, American, musician, from Detroit…African American, American artist-producer
James Dewitt Yancey (February 7 1974-February 10 2006), better known as J Dilla or Jay Dee, was an American hip hop producer and MC, who emerged...
Gerald Early

Gerald Early

male, 57 years old
Washington University, Critic, prose, Washington University faculty, Washington University in St. Louis, English…AfricanAmericanculture, African-American studies scholar, American culture, African American Studies, African Studies
Gerald Early (b. 1952) is an essayist and American culture critic. A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he is currently a professor of English,...
Reverend Gary Davis

Reverend Gary Davis

male, deceased (1972)
Baptist, ordination, keb mo, Minister of religion, AfricanAmericanculture, blues…American Record Company, black culture, American, African American
Reverend Gary Davis also Blind Gary Davis (April 30, 1896 - May 5, 1972) was an African American blues and gospel singer as well as a renowned...
John Lomax

John Lomax

male, deceased (1948)
Blues Hall of Fame inductee, music historian, meridian, rural, American, bosque county…AfricanAmericanculture
John Avery Lomax (September 23, 1867 - January 26, 1948) was a pioneering musicologist and folklorist. Lomax was born in Goodman, Mississippi and...

Nathan Hare

male, 76 years old
AfricanAmericanculture, ethnic studies, African American Studies, black studies
Nathan Hare (April 9, 1933) was the first person hired to coordinate a black studies program in the United States, at San Francisco State in 1968.
Ernest Hogan

Ernest Hogan

male, deceased (1909)
African American, Vaudeville performer, Broadway, ragtime, minstrel show, racist…AfricanAmericanculture
Ernest Hogan (born Ernest Reuben Crowders, 1868? to 1909) was the first African American entertainer to produce and star in a Broadway show ("The...
Marita Bonner

Marita Bonner

female
African American, writer, Playwright, american literature, harlem renaissance, AfricanAmericanculture
Marita Bonner (June 16, 1899-1971), an African American writer, essayist, and playwright who is commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance....
Tone Tone

Tone Tone

rapper, American, from Detroit, Detroit culture, AfricanAmericanculture, worked
Tone-Tone (born Antonio Henderson in Detroit, Michigan) is a musician who has worked with artists such as Jazze Pha and B.G.. Currently, Tone-Tone...
Henry Bannarn

Henry Bannarn

male, deceased (1965)
Duke University, Dartmouth College, African American, painter, sculptor, metropolitan museum of art…African-American, American, AfricanAmericanculture
Henry Wilmer "Mike" Bannarn (b. 1910 - d. 1965) was an African-American artist born in Wetumpka, Hughes County, Oklahoma on July 17, 1910. When he...