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Academy Award-Winning Costume Designer; Best Known for Her Work on "Selma" & Marvel's "Black Panther"

Tony Award-winning Actor, Arts Advocate, Broadway Star

First African American Female Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theatre; Author

Grammy-Winning & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Folk Singer Reclaiming African-American Musical Traditions

Award-Winning Animator, Director, Screenwriter, Producer & Songwriter; Known as the Creator of "Steven Universe"

African-Italian American Actor, Director, Producer; Best Known for his Role as Gustavo "Gus" Fring on AMC's "Breaking Bad"

Award-Winning Actor, Bestselling Author, Entrepreneur

Tony Award-Winning Film and Theater Director Known for "Hamilton" and "In the Heights"

Creator & CEO of iLuminate, Coder, Entrepreneur, Choreography

Director & Writer Known for "Daughters of the Dust"; First Black Woman to Direct A Full-Length General Theatrical Release Film in the U.S.

Activist, Multimedia Artist, Musician & Filmmaker; Director of "Whose Streets?"

Tony Award-winning actor, Grammy-winning singer, Creator of "Blindspotting"

Actress, Dancer, Choreographer, Producer; Known for "Grey's Anatomy"

Perception Expert, Sleight-of-Hand Artist, Emmy-Nominated Producer

Season 20 Champion & Professional Dancer on "Dancing With The Stars"

Cultural Icon, Author, Rapper, Record Producer & Actor Known for "Law & Order: SVU"

Award-Winning Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author; Civil Rights Activist; Cancer Survivor; Subject of the Emmy Award-Winning Documentary "Going to Mars"

Actor Known for "Selma," "The Butler" & "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"

British Actor Known for "12 Years a Slave"

Dark Comedy Playwright