Akon -- Claude Allen -- Wesley Autrey -- Chauncey Bailey -- Biyi Bandele -- Paula A. Banks -- Tyson Beckford -- Cory Anthony Booker -- Anatole Broyard -- Blis Broyard -- Charles Burnett -- Emanuel Cleaver -- William E. Cox -- Edwidge Danticat -- Eisa Davis -- Ruby Dee -- Dean Dixon -- Sheila Dixon -- Prince Semien Fielder -- C.L. Franklin -- Jendayi Frazer -- Richard D. Gidron -- Barry Harris -- Augustus F. Hawkins -- Thelton E. Henderson -- Larry Holmes -- Janet Jackson -- Elvin Jones -- Frederick McKinley Jones -- Thad Jones -- Fred Kanoute -- Alicia Keys -- Ellen Kuzwayo -- Paul Eugene Magloire -- Bobby McFerrin -- Walter Mosley -- Keke Palmer -- Tayshaun Prince -- Salli Richardson -- Percy Rodrigues -- Roxie Roker -- Victoria Rowell -- Tavis Smiley -- Winston Baldwin Spencer -- Ossian Sweet -- Mike Tirico -- Ike Turner -- Cora T. Walker -- Benjamin Ward -- Michael Wilbon -- Ken Williams -- Louis Willie Jr. -- Bill Willis -- Ernest C. Withers -- John Woodruff
Summary
Biographical profiles of important and influential persons of African heritage who form the international black community. Covers persons of various nationalities in a wide variety of fields providing coverage of names found in today's headlines as well as selected individuals from earlier in this century whose influence continues to have an impact on contemporary life
