English: Billie Holiday and her dog Mister, backstage dressing room, probably at the Downbeat, NYC (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Pitt Football Alums Tony Dorsett at Gino Torretta’s Charity Event – Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, March 7, 2009 (Photo by OPENSports.com) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Tiki Barber (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By William P. Gottlieb
Billie Holiday
Matthew Henson, American explorer. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Florida Supercon
English: Los Angeles Lakers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with Boston Celtics Robert Parish and Kevin McHale late 1980s (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
President Reagan with National Security Advisor Colin Powell (1988) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Booker T. Washington, half-length portrait, seated (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Via Library of Congress. See catalog.loc.gov. Booker T. Washington, seated on steps of porch, with wife and two sons. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
U.S. Army General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Harris & Ewing
Booker T. Washington
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X meet before a press conference. Both men had come to hear the Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This was the only time the two men ever met; their meeting lasted only one minute. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Tomb of Martin Luther King, Jr. & Coretta Scott King (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Martin Luther King, 1964 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Maya Angelou (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
President Barack Obama presenting Maya Angelou with the Presidential Medal of Freedom (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Ben Gordon of the Detroit Pistons during a game against the Milwaukee Bucks (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Muddy Waters in Toronto, Canada, 1971 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Cameron Maybin (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Simba Madziva – Jill Scott
By Clinton Library
Maya Angelou
Ronald Harmon Brown, Secretary of Commerce for President Clinton (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum/White House
Marvin Gaye performing in concert during the 1970s. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Marvin Gaye in 1973 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Tamla – Billboard, page 1, 27 April 1974,Marvin Gaye in 1973 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Marvin Gaye performing in concert during the 1970s. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell in a promotional 1967 photo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By photo by-J. Edward Bailey
Marvin Gaye
By David Shankbone