PS:

Here's another list off the top of my head of ten more personal "Black History Month" icons, these not as famous maybe but all have inspired me, and many others, and I'm lucky to call all of them friends (as I do two previously posted about personal "Black icons" Quincey Troupe and Etheridge Knight):

Nana-Ama Danquah

Mindy Thompson Fullilove

Mello-Re Houston

Angela Lockhart Aronoff

Nadia Owusu

Patricia Spears Jones

Wanda Phipps

Wanda Coleman

Ty Granderson Jones

Lorenzo Thomas

[there are more but these were

the first ten to come to mind]