Black Moment - A Montage of Movements, Successes and Achievements Made by African Americans

Entertainers

Jay Z

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Athletes

Michael February

Athletes

Kobe Bryant

Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan is synonymous with basketball. As a professional basketball player, Olympic athlete, actor, and entrepreneur, his influence reigned throughout the 1990s. In 1981, Jordan...

Entertainers

Queen Latifah

Born in Newark, New Jersey as Dana Elaine Owens, Queen Latifah earned her stage name from a cousin who nicknamed her “Latifah”, which translated...

Athletes

Serena Williams

Serena Jameka Williams, widely known as Serena Williams from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida is an American professional tennis player and business woman. She is the sister of...

Entertainers

John Legend

John Legend’s name says it all: Legend. John Legend is the first black man to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. Legend, or...

Education

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist, author, and on-camera host. Most of us recognize him as the voice of space science with his various...

Activists

John Lewis

John Lewis aka John Robert Lewis or John R. Lewis for short, was an American civil rights leader and politician. John was born in...

Athletes

Michael February

Michael February, aka “Mickey,” is a professional surfer from Cape Town, South Africa. He was born on May 17, 1993, a year before the...

Entertainers

Idris Elba

Idris Elba was born in London, England from parents of Sierra Leonean and Ghanaian descent. Elba is a man of many talents, finding public...

Politicians

Barack Obama

Former President Barack Obama was the 44th President of the United States of America, and the very first Black President of the U.S. He...

Entertainers

Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. widely know as Quincy Jones, is an American record producer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and film producer from the South Side of...