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Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American actor and producer. One of the most widely recognized actors of his generation, the films in which he has appeared have collectively grossed over $27 billion worldwide, making him the second highest-grossing actor of all time. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave him an Ac ... ... ( read more! ) James Arthur Baldwin was an African-American novelist essayist playwright poet and social critic. His essays as collected in Notes of a Native Son explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial sexual and class distinctions in Western societies most notably in mid-20th-century America and their inevitable if unnameable tensions ... ... ( read more! ) Malcolm X ( May 19, 1925 February 21, 1965), born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz was an African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist.To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes again ... ... ( read more! ) Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist and the NAACPs first field secretary in Mississippi, who was murdered by Byron De La Beckwith. ... ... ( read more! ) Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy was an American politician and lawyer from Massachusetts. He served as a United States senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. He was previously the 64th U.S. attorney general from January 1961 to September 1964, serving under his older brother President John F. Kennedy and his su ... ... ( read more! ) Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr. March 1, 1927 April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor and activist, who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s. Belafonte is one of the few performers to have received an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT), although he won the Oscar in a non-competitive catego ... ... ( read more! ) ... ... ... ... ... Richard Alva Cavett (kvt born November 19, 1936) is an American television personality and former talk show host. He appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States for five decades, from the 1960s through the 2000s.In later years, Cavett has written an online column for The New York Times, promoted DVDs of his former sho ... ... ( read more! ) ... Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and painter. He has been a major figure in music for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler, and an apparently reluctant figurehead, of social unrest. Though he is well-known for revolutionizin ... ... ( read more! )