EDUCATION, CIVIL RIGHTS & PUBLIC SERVICE

• Booker T. Washington — Educator, author, and founder of Tuskegee University
• Septima Poinsette Clark — Civil rights pioneer and educator known as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement”
• Kay Coles James — Former Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management; Founder of The Gloucester Institute
• Sylvia Trent-Adams — Former Acting U.S. Surgeon General
• Lt. Gen. Darrell K. Williams — Retired three-star general and President of Hampton University
• Robin Renee Sanders — Former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria
• Vanessa D. Gilmore — United States District Judge
• Spencer Overton — Constitutional law scholar and former Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General
• Douglas Palmer — First African American Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey
• Charles Wesley Turnbull — 26th Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands
• Percy Sutton — Civil rights attorney, entrepreneur, and former Manhattan Borough President
• Wyvetter H. Younge — Former Illinois State Representative
• Algie T. Howell Jr. — Former North Carolina legislator

BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

• Charles E. Phillips Jr. — Former President of Oracle Corporation and former CEO of Infor
• Robert S. Abbott — Founder and publisher of The Chicago Defender
• John H. Sengstacke — Publisher and civil rights advocate

MEDIA, ENTERTAINMENT & THE ARTS

• Wanda Sykes — Emmy Award-winning comedian, actress, writer, and producer
• DJ Envy (Raashaun Casey) — Nationally syndicated radio personality, entrepreneur, and co-host of The Breakfast Club
• Robbie Reed — Award-winning casting director responsible for discovering and casting some of Hollywood’s biggest stars
• Ruth E. Carter — Two-time Academy Award-winning costume designer
• Javicia Leslie — Actress and the first Black woman to portray Batwoman in a live-action television series
• Darrell Britt-Gibson — Actor (The Wire, Barry, Judas and the Black Messiah)
• Spencer Christian — Emmy Award-winning television meteorologist
• Angela Burt-Murray — Journalist, author, and former Deputy Editor of Glamour magazine
• Donna Britt — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Washington Post columnist
• Emil Wilbekin — Journalist, media executive, and former Editor-in-Chief of VIBE magazine
• Benjamin Brown — Television and film actor
• James “Biff” Henderson — Television personality and longtime stage manager for Late Show with David Letterman

SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & INNOVATION

• Mary Jackson — NASA’s first Black female engineer and Hidden Figures pioneer
• Dr. Christine Darden — NASA mathematician and aerospace engineer featured in Hidden Figures
• Dr. James E. West — Inventor and co-inventor of the electret microphone
• Dr. Moogega Cooper Stricker — NASA planetary protection scientist

SPORTS

• Rick Mahorn — NBA Champion, NBA All-Star, and coach
• Francena McCorory — Olympic gold medalist and world champion sprinter
• Devin Green — Professional basketball player
• Jazwyn Cowan — Professional basketball player
• Jerome Taylor — NFL defensive lineman

SCHOLARSHIP & THE HUMANITIES

• St. Clair Drake — Internationally renowned sociologist and anthropologist
• Samella Lewis — Artist, educator, and founder of the International Review of African American Art
• M. Carl Holman — Author, poet, playwright, and civil rights advocate
• Alberta Williams King — Educator, musician, and mother of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.