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					  As an inventor of black hair care products, this woman became the first Black woman millionaire					 
					
					 Madame C.J. Walker 
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					  He comes from a large family, they were once a musical group, and he has a sister who is also in the music industry					 
					
					 Michael Jackson 
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					  She is known for her role as the eldest daughter in the shows Blackish and Grownish. She also attends Harvard					 
					
					 Yara Shahidi (Zoey Jackson) 
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					  She is best known for her 2010 book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, and is an opinion columnist for The New York Times.					 
					
					 Michelle Alexander 
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					  Most famous for the invention of peanut butter, this man also contributed to developing over 300 uses for peanuts, including soap, skin lotion, and paint					 
					
					 George Washington Carver 
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					  This Compton-based hip-hop group made a major impact on society in the late 80s.Two of the most famous artist in the group were Ice Cube, Eazy-E, and Dr. Dre. They had deep hatred from the police and expressed that through their musical hit F The Police					 
					
					 NWA 
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					  He has a cousin named Day Day, and his dad and uncle owned a restaurant called Bros BBQ					 
					
					 Craig from Friday 
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					  In 2013,3 women formed the Black Lives Matter Network in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer, George Zimmerman. (name one of the women)					 
					
					 Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi 
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					  These women were highlighted in the hit movie Hidden Figures for their bright minds as NASA Engineers (Name at least one)					 
					
					 Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan 
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					  This poet and civil rights activist is most known for her literary success I Know Why The Cage Bird Sings					 
					
					 Maya Angelou 
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					  She is the star of the Disney Show Shake It Up, she was the love interest in Spider Man, and she has a hit show on HBO right now					 
					
					 Zendaya (Rocky Blue, MJ, Rue) 
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					  The movie Judas and the Black Messiah, follows the life and death of this Chicago Black Panther Leader					 
					
					 Fred Hampton 
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					  With only an elementary school education this famous inventor invented the 3 light traffic signal we use today					 
					
					 Garrett Morgan 
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					  Known for her role in Orange is the New Black as a transgender woman					 
					
					 Laverne Cox (Sophia Burset) 
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					  She coined the term Intersectionality. She has co-authored the reports “Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected” and “Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality against Black Women,”					 
					
					 Kimberlé Crenshaw 
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					  Feeling unsafe due to her neighborhood’s high crime rate, the full-time nurse rigged a motorized camera to record her home entryway and project images onto a TV monitor, creating the first modern home security system					 
					
					 Marie Van Brittan Brown 
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					  Star of the hit show How to Get Away with Murder					 
					
					 Viola Davis (Annalise Keating) 
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					  An acclaimed intersectional feminist writer whose most notable work includes All About Love, Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity, Aint I A Women: Black Women and Feminism					 
					
					 Bell Hooks 
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