Living: Ruby Dee, George Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Warren Buffett, Neslon Mandela, Winnie Mandela, Angela Davis, Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Mariam Makeba, Bill Cosby, Big Lez, Africa Bambata, Kool Herc, Grand Master Flash, Hugh Masekala, Fab Five Freddie, Sydney Poitier, Russell Simmons, Geronimo Pratt, Ervin Johnson, Harry Belefante, Jim Brown, Bobby Seale, Aretha Franklin.Passed on: Dizzy, Ossie Davis, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Joe Louis, Sarah Vaughn, TuPac, El Hajj Malik Al Shabazz, Dr. Betty Shabazz, Marcus Garvey, Satchmo, Ceasar Chavez, Harriet Tubman, Miles Davis, Denmark Vessey, Monk, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John Coltrane, Huey Newton, Charlie Parker, Eldrige Cleaver, W.E.B. Dubois, Tito Puente, Fred Hampton, Dexter Gordon, Richard Pryor, Medgar Evers, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Nat Turner, Rosa Parks, Carl Bashear, Jackie Robinson, Gordon Parks, Oliver Tambo