Neil deGrasse Tyson
George Washington Carver
Thomas Sowell
Cornel West
Henry Gates
Collin Powell
Ephraim Isaac
Edmond Keller
Kobi Kobbom
Toni Morrison

There are many of them who are not in sports, music, or acting.

"I have this Nightmare. I'm on 5th avenue watching the St. Patrick's Day parade and I have a coronary and nine thousand cops march happily over my body." Chief Sidney Green