In honor of some of these incredible black achievers, we've compiled a list of some (just some!) of the influential African Americans who have made the list.
Daddy would pile us children into our old Dodge and drive us to hear and meet great Black achievers whenever they came near our small hometown of Bennettsville, South Carolina.
And as racial barriers continue to fall, many significant black achievers are still living, people like the Black Entertainment Television founder Robert L. Johnson, Secretary of State Colin Powell and the media giant Oprah Winfrey, Mr. Gates said.
He received the Black Achievers Award presented by the Greater Boston YMCA and the Mass.
Growing up in India, I had seen a lot of black superstars & achievers represent the US of A. Images of Michael Jackson (MJ), Michael Jordan (MJ), Magic Johnson (another MJ :-)), of Oprah and numerous Olympic medalists, numerous superstars from sports, arts, media & a whole lot of other fields...they all seemed black.
Lemonade features cameos from some of those women in the pantheon of black girl magic: high achievers like Amandla Stenberg, Quevzanhne Wallis, Serena Williams, Zendaya and Winnie Harlow, the model who has greatly increased the visibility of people with vitiligo.
"Being Mary Jane" has obvious parallels with "Scandal" — black super-achiever stuck on a married man — but the more fruitful comparison is with HBO's "The Newsroom".
Our analysis of the federal data identified tens of thousands of high achievers who are black, Hispanic or poor.
If you tax achievement, some of the achievers are going to pack it in.
