2021 CORE 100

Most Influential Blacks Today

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Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Photo credit: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES Barack Obama served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the...

Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama

Photo credit: Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy Former First Lady Michelle Obama is an attorney and author who was the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She is married to the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, and was the...

Sylvester Turner

Sylvester Turner

Mayor of Houston Elected in December 2015 and overwhelmingly re-elected in December 2019, Sylvester Turner is serving his second four-year term. He is Houston’s 62nd mayor. Since taking office, Mayor Turner has expertly managed significant challenges facing the...

Ras Baraka

Ras Baraka

Mayor of Newark Ras Baraka is the 40th Mayor of the City of Newark. He is a native of Newark, whose family has lived in the City for more than 80 years, Mayor Baraka’s progressive approach to governing has won him accolades from grassroots organizations to the White...

Patricia Williams

Patricia Williams

Founder and Head of The Imani School Patricia Hogan Williams has had more than 30 years experience as an educator with students from preschool classrooms to university campuses. She is the Founding Head, and Executive Director of The Imani School. Under her...

Colin Kaepernick

Colin Kaepernick

Former NFL Player and Civil Rights Activist Colin Kaepernick is a civil rights activist and football quarterback who is a free agent. He played six seasons for the San Francisco 49ers in the National Football League (NFL). As a political activist, he knelt during the...

Edward Pollard

Edward Pollard

Houston City Council Edward Pollard is currently the only black male council member in Houston, Texas, the nation’s fourth largest city. He represents District J, which primarily covers southwest Houston with a constituency of nearly 200,000 people. Edward is a proud...

Thasunda Duckett

Thasunda Duckett

CEO of Chase Consumer Banking Thasunda Duckett is the Chief Executive Officer of Chase Consumer Banking. She is a member of the Consumer & Community Banking Leadership Committee. Duckett is originally from Texas. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance and...

George L. Linen Sr. TSgt, Ret.

George L. Linen Sr. TSgt, Ret.

Air Force Aerospace Science Instructor TSgt George L. Linen Sr., known to many as, “Sarge” is a New Jersey resident and has been employed as an Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps Aerospace Science Instructor at Bridgeton High School for the past 14 years....

Tyrone Brooks

Tyrone Brooks

MLB Executive Tyrone Brooks was announced by Major League Baseball on January 27, 2016 as Senior Director of the Front Office and Field Staff Diversity Pipeline Program. The Front Office and Field Staff Diversity Pipeline Program (“Diversity Pipeline Program”) is an...

Leland D. Melvin

Leland D. Melvin

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Ronald L. Johnson

Ronald L. Johnson

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Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom

Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom

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Marcia Louise Fudge

Marcia Louise Fudge

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Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.

Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.

Photo credit: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association Dr. Benjamin Chavis Jr., iconic civil rights leader, entrepreneur, global business entrepreneur, educator, organic chemist, NAACP Life Member, syndicated...

Shaun King

Shaun King

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Michele Meyer-Shipp

Michele Meyer-Shipp

MLB Executive Michele Meyer-Shipp is the Chief People & Culture Officer of Major League Baseball. She reports directly to Baseball Commissioner Robert D. Manfred Jr. and sits on MLB’s Executive Committee. In her role, Michele leads human resources; diversity,...

Tony Clark

Tony Clark

MLBPA Executive Director Tony Clark is the first former player to serve as Executive Director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, overseeing all aspects of the union’s operations, including contract administration, grievance arbitration, and pension and...

Caroline Clarke

Caroline Clarke

Sr. VP of Nielsen Media Caroline Clarke Senior Vice President, Editorial Content Strategy at Nielsen Media, is an award-winning journalist, a sought after speaker, moderator and published author. In her current role, Clarke leads the Nielsen Media Thought Leadership...

Deena Hayes-Greene

Deena Hayes-Greene

Founder & Managing Director Racial Equity Institute Deena A. Hayes-Greene is a racial equity consultant, trainer, and community/institutional organizer whose work focuses on the impacts of race and racism on systems, institutions, organizations and individuals. In...

Maxine Waters

Maxine Waters

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Bryan Stevenson

Bryan Stevenson

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Stacey Abrams

Stacey Abrams

Photo credit: Kerri Battles for Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs U.S. Voting Rights Activist Stacey Abrams is the House Minority Leader for the Georgia General Assembly and State Representative for the 89th House District. She is the first woman to lead...

Amanda Gorman

Amanda Gorman

Photo credit: the Library of Congress Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, as well as an award-winning writer and cum laude graduate of Harvard University, where she studied Sociology. She has written for the New York Times and...

Ayanna Pressley

Ayanna Pressley

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Bianca Smith

Bianca Smith

MLB Coach Bianca Smith is a professional baseball coach in the Boston Red Sox organization. Smith, 29, has become the first African American woman to serve as a professional baseball coach. In the role, she will work with the team’s infielders at the Red Sox minor...

Deion Sanders

Deion Sanders

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Dr. William Darity

Dr. William Darity

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Dave Roberts

Dave Roberts

MLB MANAGER David Roberts is a professional baseball manager and former outfielder who is the manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for five MLB teams over a ten-year career and then coached for the San Diego Padres before being...

Michelle Roberts

Michelle Roberts

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Ibram X. Kendi

Ibram X. Kendi

Photo credit: Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0 author / activist Ibram X. Kendi is an author, professor, anti-racist activist, and historian of race and discriminatory policy in America. In July 2020, he assumed the position of director of the Center for Antiracist...

Ben Crump

Ben Crump

Photo credit: Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States Civil Rights Attorney Benjamin Lloyd “Ben” Crump is an attorney who specializes in civil rights and catastrophic personal injury cases. Crump attended Florida State University and received his...

Keisha Lance Bottoms

Keisha Lance Bottoms

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Dusty Baker

Dusty Baker

Manager of the Houston Astros Dusty Baker is a Major League Baseball manager who currently manages the Houston Astros. A former major league player, who had a 19-year career as a hard-hitting outfielder, primarily with the Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Dodgers. Baker...

LeBron James

N4X NBA Champion, 4X NBA MVP & Activist

by JR Gamble

LeBron James is the greatest basketball player-businessman-activist of all time. The anointed top shotta in the CORE 100 Most Influential Blacks Today had a championship-laden 2020 in the face of social unrest and a worldwide pandemic.
In fact, he executed a Triple-Double in life... Read More

 

Allyson Michelle Felix

Allyson Michelle Felix

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Stephen Curry

Stephen Curry

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Harold Reynolds

Harold Reynolds

MLB Network Analyst Harold Reynolds, a two-time American League All-Star, is a two-time Sports Emmy award-winning analyst. Reynolds also appears across MLB Network’s programming and during the offseason co-hosts Hot Stove alongside Matt Vasgersian. Reynolds was a game...

Antron Brown

Antron Brown

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Dawn Staley

Dawn Staley

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Patrick Mahomes, II

Patrick Mahomes, II

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Serena Williams

Serena Williams

Photo credit: Edwin Martinez Former World No. 1 Women’s Tennis Player Serena Williams is a professional tennis player and former world No. 1 in women’s single tennis. She has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most by any player in the Open Era, and the second-most...

Maya Moore

Maya Moore

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Nneka Ogwumike

Nneka Ogwumike

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Shannon Sharpe

Shannon Sharpe

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Stephen A. Smith

Stephen A. Smith

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Tony Reagins

Tony Reagins

MLB Executive Tony Reagins recently completed his 29th year in professional baseball. His unique career path began with an internship with the Los Angeles Angels and included stops as the team’s Director of Player Development and ultimately overseeing all of Baseball...

Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton

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Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi

BLACK LIVES MATTER (BLM) FOUNDERS

Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi together founded Black Lives Matter. The three started the movement out of frustration in July 2013, with the use of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African-American teen Trayvon Martin... Read More

Aaron Donald

Aaron Donald

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Altarik White

Altarik White

Educator and Mentor Altarik White is a Newark native and former educator in the Newark Public School System. His current passion is serving as founder and executive director of Leaders for Life, Inc. — a nonprofit focused on improving the quality of life and access to...

Haron Hargrave

Haron Hargrave

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Gary Charles & Felicia Hall Allen

Gary Charles & Felicia Hall Allen

Photo credit: Ken Jones Photography Advancement of Blacks in Sports Founders Gary Charles, a grass roots basketball coaching legend fostered partnerships with high profile individuals to launch Advancement of Blacks in Sports, Inc. (ABIS), a newly established...

Mary Young

Mary Young

Founder of Shop with a Cop and Shop with a Jock Mary Young has been in Law Enforcement for approximately 23 years and values each day as an opportunity for growth. She became the Chief of Police at Texas Southern University (TSU) in March of 2017, after retiring with...

Mya Smith-Edmonds

Mya Smith-Edmonds

McDonald’s Franchise Owner Mya Smith-Edmonds, a native of Houston, Texas, is the first female African-American Next Generation McDonald’s owner/operator, owning seven McDonald’s Restaurants in Central Indiana. She serves as a Board Member for the Greater Indiana...

C.J. Stewart

C.J. Stewart

Co-founder of L.E.A.D. C.J. Stewart is an Atlanta native, a former Chicago Cubs outfielder and an Amazon #1 Best Selling Author (Living To L.E.A.D.: A Story of Passion, Purpose and Grit). He has earned the recognition of being one of the top baseball player...

Miles Warren III

Miles Warren III

VP at JP Morgan Chase Miles L. Warren III is a Vice-President within Global Philanthropy at JP Morgan Chase in Los Angeles. He Graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and received his Master of Arts...

Holly Robinson Peete

Holly Robinson Peete

Actress and Autism Advocate Holly Robinson Peete is an actress, singer and philanthropist. She is known for her roles as Judy Hoffs on the Fox TV police drama 21 Jump Street, Vanessa Russell on the ABC sitcom Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper, and Dr. Malena Ellis on the NBC/WB...

Latosha Brown

Latosha Brown

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Lyndsay Levingston

Lyndsay Levingston

Multimedia Expert Lyndsay Levingston is a multimedia expert, host, television talent, contributor and educator. She has appeared on and contributed to BOLD TV, NJTV News (PBS), New York’s Verizon Fios1, NY 1 News, NBC Houston, FOX Houston, FOX Tulsa and NTV Houston in...

Bob Kendrick

Bob Kendrick

Photo credit: Negro Leagues Baseball Museum President of Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Bob Kendrick is the President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) in Kansas City, Missouri. Prior to that he was the museum’s first Director of Marketing and was promoted to...

DR. KIZZMEKIA CORBETT

Coronavirus Vaccine Researcher

Dr. Kizzmekia “Kizzy” Corbett is a research fellow and the scientific lead for the Coronavirus Vaccines & Immunopathogenesis Team at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Vaccine Research Center (VRC). She received a B.S. in Biological Sciences... Read More

Dr. Camara Jones

Dr. Camara Jones

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Dr. Heather Brown

Dr. Heather Brown

Orthodontist, Mentor and Philanthropist Dr. Heather Brown is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi. She received her Doctor of Dental Surgery Degree from Meharry Medical College and her specialist certificate in Orthodontics at Howard University where...

OPRAH WINFREY

Multi-billionaire, Actress, Talk Show Host & Producer

Oprah Winfrey is America’s first lady of talk shows, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 years... Read More

Harry L. Smith II

Harry L. Smith II

Entrepreneur and Founder of The Smith Foundation Harry Smith is a Restaurant Owner/Operator of 17 restaurants in the Central Division/Indianapolis Region. Harry is an OPNAD “National Marketing” Representative on behalf of the National NBMOA, OPNAD By-Law/Process Team...

Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington

Greatest Actor of the 21st Century, Director & Producer Denzel Washington is an actor, director, and producer. He has been described as an actor who reconfigured “the concept of classic movie stardom”, associating with characters defined by their grace, dignity,...

Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter

Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter

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Beyoncé Knowles-Carter

Beyoncé Knowles-Carter

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Dewayne “The Rock” Johnson

Dewayne “The Rock” Johnson

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Magic Johnson

Magic Johnson

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Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan

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Tyler Perry

Tyler Perry

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Tyla-Simone Crayton

Tyla-Simone Crayton

Teen Entrepreneur Tyla-Simone Crayton, 17, is the Young CEO of Sienna Sauce. Her world-renowned Sienna Sauce has been making its rounds throughout the condiments industry. Her goal is to disrupt a male dominated industry and by doing so, she has already caused...

Mary & Jon Tjon-Joe-Pin

Mary & Jon Tjon-Joe-Pin

House Flippers Jon Pierre and Mary Tjon-Joe-Pin who have been married 10 years, were hit with the house flipping bug 8 years ago after purchasing their first home. Their foreclosure find became their first adventure into major, DIY renovations. However, they poured so...

Tony Chase

Tony Chase

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Khaliah Guillory

Khaliah Guillory

Entrepreneur The creative mind behind Nap Bar is Khaliah O. Guillory. As a previous C-level executive at a Fortune 500 company that oversaw a $1 billion-dollar book of business and over 220 employees, she knows a thing or two about handling stress. An avid napper,...

Ryan Rondeno

Ryan Rondeno

Chef to the Stars Ryan Rondeno, Personal Chef to the Stars, is a true master of his trade and is ready to shake up the restaurant industry by bringing elegant dishes, bold flavor, and simple technique to the home-front with the launch of his impactful App—FoodCulture....

She’s Happy Hair Founders

She’s Happy Hair Founders

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Donna Richardson Joyner

Donna Richardson Joyner

Best-selling Author & Motivational Speaker Donna Richardson Joyner is a best-selling author and an international motivational speaker. She is a renowned wellness/travel expert who has traveled to 50 states, 50 countries and 6 continents helping people to become...

Derek Jeter

Derek Jeter

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Reggie Collier

Reggie Collier

Women’s Transformation Specialist and Owner Reggie Collier was previously the Trainer and Transformation Specialist at Signature Physiques Studio, but now he is the owner of RC Fitness in Houston, TX. His focus is helping women reach their full fitness potential by...

Marcus Davis

Marcus Davis

Restauranteur Marcus Davis is an entrepreneur, restaurateur, speaker, and political commentator.The spirit and entrepreneurial mastermind behind the breakfast klub, a nationally recognized Houston staple, is Marcus Davis. He is best known for his tireless commitment...

Taraji P. Henson

Taraji P. Henson

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Dawn Paul

Dawn Paul

Media Personality Dawn Paul is an award-winning certified life coach, author, media personality, and public speaker. With authenticity and the gift and passion to genuinely connect with people, she realizes that her words have power and purpose, not taking this great...

Spike Lee

Spike Lee

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Cam Hill

Cam Hill

Radio Show Host THE CAM HILL SHOW Host, Cam Hill was born to a Truck Driver/Entrepreneur and an English Teacher. Cam developed a strong work ethic as a child from witnessing his father navigate all aspects of his businesses. He began working with his father from the...

Will Smith

Will Smith

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Shaquille O’Neal

Shaquille O’Neal

NBA Hall of Fame and Business Mogul Shaquille “Shaq” O’Neal is a former professional basketball player, who is currently a sports analyst on the television program Inside the NBA on TNT. He played for six teams over his 19-year career in the National Basketball...

Moncy Hawkins

Moncy Hawkins

Board-certified Credit Consultant Moncy Hawkins is a wife and mother of 3 children who places high value on faith and her family. After obtaining 20 years of experience and serving in leadership roles in accounting and finance within the top Oil & Gas and Big 5...

Viola Davis

Viola Davis

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Jordan Peele

Jordan Peele

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Jemele Hill

Jemele Hill

Unapologetic Nationally Acclaimed Journalist Jemele Hill is a sports journalist who was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. She writes for The Atlantic and worked nearly 12 years for sports conglomerate ESPN. She wrote a column for ESPN.com’s Page 2 and formerly...

Kim Roxie

Kim Roxie

Entrepreneur and CEO Kim Roxie is the Founder & CEO of LAMIK Beauty, a clean beauty brand that caters to multicultural women. After opening her own brick and mortar makeup shop at age 21, in Houston, TX on a $500 investment, Kim ran that store for 14 years and was the...

Regina King

Regina King

Photo credit: Glenn Francis of www.PacificProDigital.com Award-winning Actress & Director Regina King is an actress and director who grew up in View Park–Windsor Hills. King began her acting career in 1985. She is the recipient of several awards, including an Academy...

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Nikole Hannah-Jones

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Shonda Rhimes

Shonda Rhimes

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Michael B. Jordan

Michael B. Jordan

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Michael Strahan

Michael Strahan

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