Frederick Douglas Memorial Hall at Howard University in Washington, DC. This building, along with three others, was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 2001. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By C.M. Battey
Frederick Douglas Memorial Hall at Howard University in Washington, DC. This building, along with three others, was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 2001. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By C.M. Battey

Sidney Poitier’s image, cropped from Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C., 08/28/1963, an image in Public Domain (see credits below, of the original). The original is uploaded here at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Poitier_Belafonte_Heston_Civil_Rights_March_1963.jpg (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Actor Sidney Poitier receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama on August 12, 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Charles Barkley, former NBA basketball player who played for Phoenix Suns, Houston Rockets and Philadelphia 76ers, currently works as a sports commentator for ESPN. עברית: צ’ארלס בארקלי, שחקן נ.ב.א. לשעבר ששיחק עבור פניקס סאנס, יוסטון רוקטס ופילדלפיה 76′, כיום עובד כפרשן עבור ערוץ הטלוויזיה ESPN. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Jørund F Pedersen

English: Oscar-nominated film director John Singleton, taken during a USC Football rally (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Cornelius Marion
Smokey Robinson in concert at the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California, on August 17, 2006. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Miracles in the early 1960s. Clockwise from top left: Bobby Rogers, Marv Tarplin, Ronald White, Claudette Rogers, and Smokey Robinson. At the time of this photograph, Miracles member Pete Moore (not pictured) was serving in the US Army after being drafted. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Nancy Pelosi
By Mingo Hagen
By derivative work: Entheta (talk)Toni_Morrison_2008.jpg: Angela Radulescu
Toni Morrison
English: Thelonious Monk, Minton’s Playhouse, New York, ca. September 1947. Photograph by William P. Gottlieb (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Thelonious Monk and Howard McGhee at Minton’s Playhouise, ca. September 1947. Photography by William P. Gotlieb. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Thelonious Monk, Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge, and Teddy Hill, Minton’s Playhouse, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947 (Photograph by William P. Gottlieb) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By William P. Gottlieb
English: Picture of Michael Jordan at a basketball game. Français : Photo de Michael Jordan lors d’un match de basket. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Michael Jordan at Boston Garden
By Steve Lipofsky at basketballphoto.com
Original six members of the Black Panther Party (November, 1966) Top left to right: Elbert “Big Man” Howard; Huey P. Newton (Defense Minister), Sherman Forte, Bobby Seale (Chairman). Bottom: Reggie Forte and Little Bobby Hutton (Treasurer) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Joe Frazier was awarded the Order of the Palmetto in Beaufort, South Carolina, United States. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
edited (colour) picture Image:Wilt Chamberlain.jpg Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player wearing uniform of Harlem Globetrotters. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Wilt_Chamberlain_Bill_Russell.jpg: New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographerderivative work
By Josh Hallett
Publicity photo from the premiere of The Nat King Cole Show. Cole was the first African-American to host a program of this type. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Cleary, Strauss, Irwin & Goodman-publicity
By Porter Hovey