Ruth Carter
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Oscar-Winning Costume Designer
Run DMC
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Foundational Hip Hip Group
Dwayne McDuffie
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Writer & Comic Book Artist
Sidney Poitier & Cicely Tyson
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Groundbreaking Actors in Hollywood
Spike Lee
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Black Filmmaker & Oscar Winner
Harlem Renaissance
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Major Cultural Era for Black Art & Thought
Augusta Savage
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Sculptor & Harlem Renaissance Figure
Wally “Famous” Amos
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Cookie Entrepreneur
Maya Angelou
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Award-winning American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist
Alvin Ailey & Judith Jameson
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Groundbreaking African Americans in Dance