- Jeremiah Wright
Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. (born September 22, 1941) is a former pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC), a largely African-American megachurch in Chicago with 10,000 members. He retired on February 10, 2008, after 36 years as the senior pastor of that congregation. - Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael (June 29, 1941 - November 15, 1998), also known as Kwame Ture, was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. He rose to prominence first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party. - Charles Hamilton Houston
Charles Hamilton Houston (September 3, 1895-April 22, 1950) was a black lawyer, Dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP Litigation Director who helped play a role in dismantling the Jim Crow laws and helped train future Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall. He was educated at Amherst College, where he was valedictorian, and at Harvard Law School, where he graduated cum laude and was a member of the "Harvard Law Review". - Tony Brown
William Anthony Brown (born April 11, 1933) is an American journalist, academian and businessman. He is best known as the commentator of the long running syndicated television show, Tony Brown's Journal. In 1959, he received a BA in Sociology from Wayne State University. In 1961, he received an MA in Psychiatric Social Work from Wayne State University. He is a former faculty member at Central Washington University and Federal City College. - Donald Byrd
Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II (born December 9, 1932) is an American jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter, born in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Cass Technical High School. He performed with Lionel Hampton before finishing high school. After playing in a military band during a term in the United States Air Force, he obtained a bachelor's degree in music from Wayne State University and a master's degree from Manhattan School of Music. - Sulayman Nyang
Sulayman Nyang teaches at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he serves as a professor of African Studies. He has written extensively on Islamic, African and Middle Eastern affairs. His best known works include "Islam, Christianity and African Identity"," and "Religious Plurality in Africa"." He serves as a consultant to the Smithsonian Institution and served as Deputy Ambassador of The Gambia to Saudi Arabia. - Debbie Allen
Debbie Allen (born Deborrah Kaye Allen on January 16, 1950 in Houston, Texas) is an American actor, choreographer, film director, television producer, and a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. She is best known for her role as Lydia Grant in the hit television series, "Fame". Allen earned a B.A. degree in classical Greek literature, speech, … - Stephen Baskerville
Stephen Baskerville is a Professor of Political Science at Howard University in Washington, DC. He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. Baskerville is the President of the American Coalition of Fathers and Children, a leading fathers' rights organization in the United States. He is an advisor to the Men’s Health Network, and spokesman for Men, Fathers, and Children, International, a coalition of 12 fatherhood organizations from 9 countries. - Edward Brooke
The first African American elected to the Senate by popular vote, Edward Brooke of Massachusetts served two full terms, from 1967 to 1979. Born in Washington, D.C. in 1919, Brooke graduated from Howard University before serving in the United States Army during World War II. After the war, he received a law degree from Boston University. - Kelly Miller
Kelly Miller (July 23, 1863 - December 29, 1939) was a mathematician, sociologist, essayist, and newspaper columnist, and an important figure in the intellectual life of black America for close to half a century. Born in Winnsboro, South Carolina in 1863, he worked his way through Howard University, then did postgraduate work at Johns Hopkins University, the first black ever admitted to that university. Appointed professor of mathematics at Howard in 1890, … - Tom Brokaw
Thomas John Brokaw (born February 6, 1940 in Webster, South Dakota) is a popular American television journalist, Previously working on regularly scheduled news documentaries for the NBC television network, and is the former NBC News anchorman and managing editor of the program "NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw". His last broadcast as anchorman was on December 1, 2004, succeeded by Brian Williams in a carefully planned transition. - John Mercer Langston
John Mercer Langston (December 14 1829 - November 15 1897) was an American abolitionist and U.S. Congressman from Virginia. He was one of the first blacks in the United States to be elected to public office when in 1855 he was elected as a town clerk in Ohio. Langston was born in Louisa County, Virginia, the son of Ralph Quarles, a white plantation owner, and Lucy Langston, a slave of mixed African and Native American background. - Howard Thurman
Howard Thurman (born 1900 in Daytona Beach, Florida - April 10, 1981 in Daytona Beach, Florida) was an author, philosopher, theologian, educator and civil rights leader. In 1923, Howard Thurman graduated from Morehouse College as valedictorian. He was ordained a Baptist minister in 1925, after completing his study at the Colgate Rochester Theological Seminary (now Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School). - Benny Golson
Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. While in high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Golson played with several other promising young musicians, including John Coltrane, Red Garland, Jimmy Heath, Percy Heath, Philly Joe Jones, and Red Rodney. After graduating from Howard University Golson joined Bull Moose Jackson's rhythm and blues band; Tadd Dameron, … - David Dinkins
David Norman Dinkins (born July 10 1927 in Trenton, New Jersey) was the Mayor of New York City from 1989 through 1993, being the first and to date only African American to hold that office. He is the most recent Democrat to have been elected Mayor of New York City. During World War II he served in the United States Marine Corps. Dinkins is a graduate of Howard University, with a degree in Mathematics, and Brooklyn Law School. - Kurt Schmoke
Kurt L. Schmoke (born December 1, 1949) is the Dean of the Howard University Law School and a former mayor of Baltimore, Maryland. The son of Murray (a civilian chemist for the US Army) and Irene Schmoke (a social worker), he attended the public schools of Baltimore. Schmoke is an honorary member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the nation's oldest inter-collegiate fraternity for African American men - Geri Allen
Geri Allen (born June 12 1957 in Pontiac, Michigan) is a post bop jazz pianist and music educator from Detroit, Michigan, who has worked with many of the greats of modern jazz, including Dave Holland, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, Ornette Coleman, Betty Carter and Charles Lloyd. She cites her primary influences to be Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock and Bill Evans. She is married to trumpeter Wallace Roney. - Patricia Roberts Harris
Patricia Roberts Harris (May 31, 1924 - March 23, 1985) served as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the last United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and the first United States Secretary of Health and Human Services in the administration of President Jimmy Carter. Born Patricia Roberts in Mattoon, Illinois, Harris graduated summa cum laude from Howard University in 1945. - Ethel Hedgeman Lyle
Ethel Hedgeman Lyle (born Ethel Hedgeman, February 10, 1885 - November 28, 1950) was an African-American founder of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA). - Jessye Norman
Jessye Norman is an American opera singer. Norman is one of the most admired contemporary opera singers and recitalists, and one of the highest paid performers in classical music. A true dramatic soprano with a majestic stage presence, Norman is associated in particular with the roles of Aïda, Cassandre, Alceste, and Leonora in "Fidelio". Norman has been given the nickname 'Just Enormous' for her powerful voice and range. - Sulayman S. Nyang
Dr. Sulayman S. Nyang is professor and chairman of the African Studies Department at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and co-principal investigator of Project MAPS. A former deputy ambassador and head of chancery of the Gambia Embassy in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Nyang has served as consultant to several national and international agencies and on the boards of the African Studies Association, the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies, … - Cathy Hughes
Cathy Hughes, born Catherine Elizabeth Woods in Omaha, Nebraska on April 22, 1947, is an African-American entrepreneur, radio and television personality and business executive. - Lois Mailou Jones
Lois Mailou Jones (November 3, 1905 - June 9, 1998) was an African American Harlem Renaissance painter. Lois Mailou Jones, born in 1905 in Boston, Massachusetts, had a very big impact on African American artists. She was an internationally acclaimed black artist, which was uncommon then. She began her teaching career at Palmer Memorial Institute in North Carolina while coaching a basketball team, teaching folk dancing, and playing the piano. - Elijah Cummings
Elijah Eugene Cummings (born January 18 1951) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 7th district of the State of Maryland (map) since 1996. - Antoine Bethea
Antoine Bethea (born July 27, 1984 in Savannah, Georgia) is an American football safety for the Indianapolis Colts of the NFL. He was selected in the sixth round of the 2006 NFL Draft out of Howard University. He attended Denbigh High School, where he was a three-year letterman in football, and also lettered in basketball, where he earned all-area and all-conference honors in his senior year. He is 5 feet 11 inches and weighs 203 pounds. - Eric Roberson
Eric Roberson is a Soul artist from Rahway, New Jersey, USA. He is sometimes referred to simply as Erro. His first single, "The Moon", was released through Warner Bros. records in 1994. Roberson recorded an album for that label, which remained unreleased. He subsequently returned to Howard University to complete his studies in Musical Theatre. After performing in a number of musicals and plays, he landed a songwriting deal through the EMI label, … - Kamau Kambon
Kamau Rashidi Kambon, born Leroy Jefferson is a former African Studies college instructor. He generated huge controversy when he advocated the racial genocide of whites at a black supremacist forum at Howard University on October 14, 2005 - Julianne Malveaux
Dr. Julianne Malveaux is the President of Bennet College for Women. Recognized for her progressive and insightful observations, she is also an economist, author and commentator. Dr. Malveaux's contributions to the public dialogue on issues such as race, culture, gender, and their economic impacts, are shaping public opinion in the 21st century America. - Colbert I. King
Colbert I. King (born 1939-09-20) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post. He is Deputy Editor of the Post's editorial page. King earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in government from Howard University in 1961. Before joining the staff of the Washington Post in 1990, … - Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton I first read Lucille Clifton in a class taught by Professor Kate Rushin at Wesleyan University. Lucille was the first poet that made me feel like I could write using small words. Her poems use simple words, but carry layers of thought and meaning. This is a quote from one of my favorite poems of hers. - Haile Gerima
Haile Gerima (b. Gondar, Ethiopia, March 4, 1946) is an Ethiopian filmmaker who immigrated to the United States in 1968. At UCLA he was an important member of the Los Angeles School of black film makers. He has been a professor of film at Howard University in Washington, D.C. since 1975. His best kown film is probably "Sankofa" (1993), a film about slavery. Gerima's most recent film is "Adwa" (1999), a documentary about the Battle of Adowa, … - Oliver O. Howard
Oliver Otis Howard (November 8, 1830 - October 26, 1909) was a career U.S. Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. He was a corps commander noted for suffering two humiliating defeats, at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, but he recovered from the setbacks while posted in the Western Theater, and served there successfully as a corps and army commander. After the war, he commanded troops in the West, … - Shaka Hislop
Neil Shaka Hislop (born 22 February 1969) is a professional football goalkeeper, currently playing for FC Dallas and the Trinidad and Tobago national football team. - William H. Hastie
Dr. William H. Hastie (November 171904-April 14 1976) was both the first African American Governor of the United States Virgin Islands and the first African American judge on a Federal appeals court. He was considered by some as a pioneer of the civil rights movement in the United States. Hastie was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He graduated first in his class, magna cum laude from Amherst College in Massachusetts before attending Harvard Law School, … - Alvin Thornton
Alvin Thornton is the chair of Howard University's political science department and has also been associate provost. He is a proponent of universal opportunity to conquer class discrepancy. In 1999, he was chairman of the Maryland General Assembly's Commission on Education Finance, Equity, and Excellence, popularly known as the Thornton Commission. Its goal was to find ways for the Maryland public education system to ensure equity in education, that is, … - Claude Brown
Claude Brown (February 23, 1937 - February 2, 2002) is the author of "Manchild in the Promised Land," published to critical acclaim in 1965, which tells the story of his coming of age during the 1940s and 1950s in Harlem. Autobiographical in nature, the book describes the cultural, economic, and religious conditions that suffused Harlem during Brown's early childhood and adolescence while constructing a narrative of Brown's tumultuous early life. - Alcee Hastings
Alcee Hastings - Alcee Lamar Hastings (born September 5, 1936), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the 23rd District of Florida (map). Hastings was a lawyer and judge of the circuit court of Broward County, Florida, and United States District Court judge for the Southern District of Florida (1979-1989). - Wallace Roney
Wallace Roney (born May 25, 1960) is an American hard bop and post-bop trumpeter. He was born in Philadelphia and attended Howard University and Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts after graduating from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts of the D. C. Public Schools, where he studied trumpet with Langston Fitzgerald of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Diagnosed with having perfect pitch abilities at 4 years old, … - Alain Leroy Locke
Alain LeRoy Locke (September 13, 1886 - June 9, 1954) was an African American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts. He is best known for his writings on and about the Harlem Renaissance. He is unofficially called the "Father of the Harlem Renaissance." His philosophy served as a strong motivating force in keeping the energy and passion of the Movement at the forefront. - Steve Wilson
Steve Wilson (born August 24, 1957 in Los Angeles, California) is a former American football defensive back who played for the Denver Broncos for most of his career from 1979 to 1988. He started for the Broncos in Super Bowl XXII. Later he was head coach of Howard University, his alma mater. His father Tom Wilson, played eight seasons in the NFL.
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