He performed the first successful open-heart surgery in the United States.

This Tony award winning musical about a brave Nigerian musician and artist is produced by Jay-Z, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith.

She is the president and CEO of V & J Holding Companies, which owns many Burger King restaurants. She is the first African American woman to be elected to the Board of Directors of the Green Bay Packers.

Supposedly fitting the description of a serial rapist, this man was gunned down by plain clothed NYPD officers on the porch of his home because he reached for his wallet.

At the age of 14, this young man developed the stitching technique to help reduce surgical complications.

She became the first African American neurosurgeon in the United States.

She is the co-founder and ambassador of the Keep a Child Alive organization, which provides medication and support to the children and families affected by HIV/AIDS in countries such as South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and India.

He founded the African Heritage Network, a syndication service that packages vintage Black movies and sells them to television channels nationwide.

He was gunned down the morning he was to be married by undercover NYPD officers.

At the age of sixteen, he became the youngest pilot to solo six airplanes and one helicopter in the same day.

This person invented the amputee self-feeding device.

He is the founder of the Show Me Campaign. The organization works to give every child in the U.S. access to a quality education.

She is Sam's Club president and the first African American woman to hold a CEO position at one of the company's business units.

He was an unarmed man killed on New Year's Day in 2009 in the Fruitvale BART train station in Oakland, California.

She became the CEO of her own hair line at 9 years old. She is the youngest entrepreneur to ever open the NASDAQ.

He is the 7th African American astrophysicist in the world. He is the current and first African American director of the Hayden Planetarium.

He is the founder of an organization that helps transform communities affected by destructive conflicts and gang violence to become safer and more productive.

As the President and CEO of McDonald's Corporation, he leads the world's largest foodservice company.

This young man was accosted and murdered for "standing his ground" in the state of Florida at the hands of George Zimmerman, who was acquitted from any wrong doing.

At 12 years of age, this young lady produced a premier issue of Blackgirl, a bimonthly magazine for young African American girls.

She patented a method for removing cataract lenses by using a laser device and is the founder of The Institute for Prevention of Blindness.

She is the crisis manager who became America's best-known corporate fixer, representing people like Clarence Thomas, Monica Lewinsky, Michael Vick and Paula Deen. She's the real life Olivia Pope.

She is the first African American to create and executive-produce a top-10 primetime television series, and is the force behind ABC's Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, and Scandal.

This organization assists wrongly accused convicted felons. They assisted Freddie Peacock, who was the 250th person to be cleared by DNA evidence.

This young man was accepted into Morehouse College at 13 years of age. This wiz kid is currently earning credits towards his pre-med, computer science and mathematics degrees.