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Troy Anthony Carter (born October 26, 1963) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district since 2021. He was previously a member of the Louisiana State Senate for the 7th district.
Congressman Troy A. Carter, Sr. earned a Bachelor’s degree from Xavier University in Political Science and a Master’s of Science in Management from the University of Holy Cross. He studied at Harvard’s JFK School of Government and Carnegie Mellon’s School of Urban and Public Affairs . Congressman Carter began his professional career as a Senior Aide to then-Mayor Sidney Barthelemy.

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Herschel Junior Walker  is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons. Additionally, Walker broke a world record in the 60-yard dash, represented the United States in the 1992 Winter Olympics in bobsledding, earned a fifth-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and went undefeated as a Mixed Martial Arts fighter. Since being diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) as a result of trauma he experienced in childhood, Herschel has dedicated his life to helping others struggling with mental health.

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Emilia Strong Sykes is an American politician who is the U.S. representative for Ohio's 13th congressional district. She formerly represented the 34th district of the Ohio House of Representatives, which consists of portions of the Akron area.As a State Representative, Emilia has worked tirelessly to keep jobs in our state and expand opportunity for working families in Northeast Ohio. She’s fought for tax cuts for middle-class and working families, funding for high-speed internet, and higher wages and safer working conditions for Ohio’s workers. Emilia is running for the United States Congress because Northeast Ohio needs a fighter who isn’t afraid to stand up for them when the powerful and well connected tell her to sit down and embrace the status quo. She’s ready to stand up for our jobs, for affordable healthcare and education, and for bipartisan cooperation to actually get things done.

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Alondra Nelson is one of the country's foremost thinkers in the fields of science, technology, social inequality, and race. Her groundbreaking books include The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome and Body and Soul.She was the 14th president of the Social Science Research Council, an international research nonprofit. Nelson was previously professor of sociology at Columbia University, where she also served as the inaugural Dean of Social Science She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

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Charles Howard Wright was a Detroit physician and founder of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.Wright was active in social issues and was a lifelong member of the NAACP. He started the African Medical Education Fund through the Detroit Medical Society and served as a physician during civil rights marches in Louisiana in 1965. He traveled to West Africa to perform medical surveys, and to Columbia to work on a floating hospital, the S.S. Hope. In 1978, the City of Detroit provided land for a museum in Midtown and funds were raised for a new building that opened in 1987 at 301 Frederick Street. The name was changed to the Museum of African American History. When the museum outgrew that facility, Detroit voters approved a bond for a third building at 315 E. Warren in the University Cultural Center, which opened in 1997 - the largest African American history museum in the world.

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Jalen Alexander Hurts is an American football quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League.
Hurts started his football career at a very young age when he was a member of the Channelview High School football team- where his dad coached. He played his first three seasons of college football at Alabama and even won the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship.Hurts once told the media that he keeps “God at the center of everything. I give Him all the praise, I lean on Him all the time. And I know that everything unfolds the way it’s supposed to.’

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Josephine Ebaugh Jones was a community activist and possibly the first Black woman in management at a Fortune 500 company. Jones participated in protests, along with Michael Henry Adams, an architectural historian and then-president of the Upper Manhattan Society for Progress through Preservation, and other residents, to preserve historic Harlem. The history of Jones’s brownstone along with an interview are included in the architectural history, “Harlem: Lost and Found” by Michael Henry Adams, published in 2001. Jones and her brownstone also appear in the 2003-2004 Museum of the City of New York’s “Harlem: Lost and Found” exhibit curated by Mr. Adams.

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One of the first African American actors to receive critical acclaimDuring his time on the West Coast, Edwards pursued film work and made his screen debut as the young prizefighter in the 1949 movie The Set Up. The same year, producer Stanley Kramer recruited Edwards to appear as the leading man in Home of the Brave (1949), Hollywood’s first post-war movie with racial prejudice as a central theme.  Edwards, who served as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War II, portrayed the soldier Peter Moss – a victim of racial bigotry who becomes emotionally distraught and paralyzed after the death of his two closest friends.

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Pauline Powell Burns was an American painter and pianist. She was the first African-American artist to exhibit paintings in California in 1890. Powell was also a pianist who gave recitals around the San Francisco Bay Area. Pauline demonstrated artistic and musical talent at a young age and pursued years of study of both painting and piano.  She gave numerous public recitals in the Bay Area and was hailed as “the bright musical star of her state.” An exhibit of her paintings in 1890 was said to be the first by an African-American artist in California.

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During the first decades of the nineteenth century, many slave rebellions took place in the province of Bahia, Brazil. Among those, the most important one was the Malê Rebellion, a religious and racial revolt against slavery and the supremacy of the Catholic religion led by African Muslims.
Six hundred Malê warriors took to the streets of Salvador. They managed to attack the barracks that controlled the city. However, due to their inferior weaponry and outnumbered infantry, they ended up being massacred by the National Guard troops, the police, and armed white civilians who were terrified by the possibility of their success.
Despite the massacre, the Malê Rebellion had enormous repercussions in Brazil. It demonstrated to authorities and elites the potential for contestation and rebellion against the slave regime. The Malê Rebellion was over, but insecurity and panic had taken hold of Bahia’s ruling class and lasted for quite some time. This insecurity and fear spread to other parts of the country.

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Renée Watson grew up in Portland, Oregon. Many of her books are inspired by the neighborhood she lived in. When Renée is working on a new book, she makes a playlist of songs she thinks her main character would like and listens to it while she writes. She does most of her writing in her writing nook, surrounded by inspiring quotes, photos of loved ones, and art.

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Jack Johnson, the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, opened the Club Deluxe, a 400-seat nightclub at the corner of 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue, in 1920.  New York was operated by white New York gangster Owney Madden. Madden used the Cotton Club as an outlet to sell his “#1 Beer” to the prohibition crowd. Although the club was briefly closed several times in the 1920s for selling alcohol, the owners’ political connections allowed them to always reopen quickly. The Cotton Club at first excluded all but white patrons although the entertainers and most of staff were African American. Exceptions to this restriction were made in the case of prominent white entertainment guest stars and the dancers. Dancers at the Cotton Club were held to strict standards; they had to be at least 5’6” tall, light skinned with only a slight tan, and under twenty-one years of age. The Cotton Club closed permanently in 1940 under pressure from higher rents, changing taste, and a federal investigation into tax evasion by Manhattan nightclub owners. The Latin Quarter nightclub opened in its space, and the building was torn down in 1989 to build a hotel.

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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom.
Beginning at age 11, Parks attended the city's Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery. In 1929, while in the 11th grade and attending a laboratory school for secondary education led by the Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes, Parks left school to attend to both her sick grandmother and mother back in Pine Level.
Rosa Parks was a civil rights leader whose refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Her bravery led to nationwide efforts to end racial segregation.

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Newton joined the Afro-American Association and helped get the first African American History course adopted into the college's curriculum. Soon after, in October 1966, he and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP).
Despite having multiple suspensions and run-ins with the law as a teen, Newton began to take his education seriously, finding inspiration when his older brother Melvin earned a master's in social work. Although Newton graduated high school in 1959, he was considered barely literate. He nonetheless became his own teacher, learning to read by himself.
Newton published a memoir/manifesto Revolutionary Suicide in 1973, with Hugh Pearson later writing the 1994 biography The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America. Newton's story was later depicted in the 1996 one-man play Huey P. Newto n, starring Roger Guenveur Smith. A 2002 filmed presentation of the project was created by Spike Lee, and documentarian Stanley Nelson looked at the history of the Panthers in the 2015 film The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.

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Nathaniel Dwayne Hale, known professionally as Nate Dogg, was an American singer, rapper, and songwriter. He gained recognition for providing guest vocals for a multitude of hit rap songs between 1992 and 2007, earning the nickname "King of Hooks"
in 1990, 213 recorded a demo tape in Long Beach, California that was eventually heard by Andre Ronell “Dr. Dre” Wright at a bachelor party. Hale also suffered from health problems. He had successive strokes in 2007 and 2008. Nathaniel “Nate Dogg” Dwayne Hale died from the complications of these strokes on March 15, 2011, in Long Beach, California at the age of 41.

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Angela Yvonne Davis is an American Marxist and feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, and author; she is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA and a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.
"Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education."

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Dr. Mitchell has spent her career helping individuals in medically underserved areas realize changes in lifestyle can have a dramatic impact on cancer care. Her research in breast, correctional, and pancreatic cancers and other GI malignancies involves new drug evaluation and chemotherapy, the development of new therapeutic regimens, chemoradiation strategies for combined modality therapy, patient selection criteria, and supportive care for patients with GI cancer.

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Avel Louise Gordly is an activist, community organizer, and former politician in the U.S. state of Oregon, who in 1996 became the first African-American woman to be elected to the Oregon State Senate. She served in the Senate from 1997 to 2009. Gordly was subsequently elected state representative from the north and northeast Portland in 1992, and she served until retiring in 2009. Her legislative record includes an array of initiatives that focus on cultural competency in education, mental health, and the administration of justice. In addition to committee assignments such as Joint Ways and Means, Education Policy, Trade, and Economic Development, and Environmental Quality, Gordly advocated for and then co-chaired Governor John Kitzhaber’s Task Force on Racial and Ethnic Health in addition to serving on the Public Commission on the Oregon Legislature.

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The NAACP or National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was established in 1909 and is America's oldest and largest civil rights organization. It was formed in New York City by white and Black activists, partially in response to the ongoing violence against Black Americans around the country.

Echoing the focus of Du Bois' Niagara Movement for civil rights, which began in 1905, NAACP aimed to secure for all people the rights guaranteed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution, which promised an end to slavery, provide equal protection of the law, and the right for all men to vote, respectively. Accordingly, the NAACP's mission is to ensure the political, educational, and equality of minority group citizens of States and eliminate racial prejudice. The NAACP works to remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes.

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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."