Profile of American film director John Singleton as he poses, with his eyes closed and head tilted back, against a rose-colored background, Los...
American rapper Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie Smalls, aka Chris Wallace , rolls a cigar outside his mother's house in Brooklyn, New York, 18th January...
Noted African-American sculptor Richard Hunt grinds and polishes a metal sculpture while at a foundry or studio, Chicago, IL, 2000.
Portrait of American computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer Annie Easley at NASA Lewis Research Center , Brook Park, Ohio, 1960s.
Portrait of American artist Faith Ringgold as she poses in front of one of her paintings in her studio, New York, New York, 1999.
Photograph of William R Carter, a government pharmacist, working in an Food and Drug Administration laboratory, 1941. Image courtesy Roger Smith/US...
African-American writer, feminist, poet and civil-rights activist Audre Lorde poses for a photograph during her 1983 residency at the Atlantic Center...
Half-length portrait of nurse Blanche A Welter as she poses front of a tree, Chicago, Illinois, 1910s. In 1912, she was the day nurse who cared for...
Portrait of American fashion model and actress Beverly Johnson, with braided hair, as she poses beside a mirror, New York, 1970s.
Deborah Feingold/Corbis via Getty Images) American astrophysicist, planetary scientist, author, and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson, 1999.
View of American Jazz musician Una Mae Carlisle , one hand on her hip, as she sings behind at a CBS microphone, 1945.
Boston, Mass: Coast guardsman Jacob Lawrence, 385 Decatur St., Brooklyn, N.Y., who is a combat artist aboard a transport, finds a showing of his...
Portrait of Jamaican-American musician, actor, and Civil Rights activist Harry Belafonte as he poses, one foot on a chair and a cigarette in his...
Cent commemorative stamp honoring astronomer and mathematician Benjamin Banneker will be issued 2/15 in Annapolis, Maryland, during the nationwide...
Sidney Poitier admires the Oscar he has just received in Santa Monica, California, on April 13, 1964. He won Best Performance by an Actor for his...
Crowned the new Miss America 1984, Miss New York, Vanessa L. Williams beams as she is applauded by runners-up Miss Virginia, Lisa Aliff , and Miss...
Dancer and founder, Arthur Mitchell, stands in the middle of the dancers of the Black Ballet Company. Mitchell created a racially integrated dance...
Backstage, preshow portrait of Cecil Taylor before the 'One Night With Blue Note' concert at Town Hall, New York, New York, February 22, 1985.
Soprano Leontyne Price, one of the first African Americans to become a leading artist at the Metropolitan Opera, photographed in 1982.
Mission specialist Ronald McNair relaxes with his saxophone during the STS 41-B mission on the Challenger shuttle. Zero gravity allows him to float...
Henry Ossawa Tanner . African-American painter who studied under Thomas Eakins and exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York. He is...
Studio headshot portrait of Trinidadian-born jazz pianist and vocalist Hazel Scott looking over her shoulder. Scott trained at the Julliard School.
Portrait of American dancer and choreographer Robert Moses, San Francisco, California, September 1, 1998.
American songwriting duo, producers Terry Lewis & Jimmy Jam as they sign contracts on a conference room table at the EMI Music Publishing offices,...
Portrait of American sibling R&B and Soul musicians Aaron Neville and Ivan Neville, of the group the Neville Brothers at Tramps, New York, New York,...
View of American sibling Gospel and R&B singers CeCe and BeBe Winans, of the duo BeBe & CeCe Winans, during a recording session at the Hit Factory...
The Hines brothers, American actors and dancers Gregory Hines and Maurice Hines, with Maurice on his brother's back, United States 13th February 1957.
Performers in costume, with the woman wearing a floral pattern bikini, as the man wears patterned armbands, a choker and a headband, which features a...
American actor Danny Glover and his wife, Asake Bomani, attend the 41st Primetime Emmy Awards at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena,...
American record producer, composer and arranger Quincy Jones, American singer Dionne Warwick and American singer-songwriter and musician Stevie...
Doris Blake, ballet dancer with the National Negro Opera Company, during rehearsals for their performance of La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi at New...
Lawrence D Reddick , a historian, professor and curator, holding an African mask from the Schomburg collection at the New York Public Library in...
American actress Alfre Woodard backstage at the 49th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California, 14th September...
American ballet dancer Janet Collins dancing with Zachary Sollov , director of ballet at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, circa 1951.
American singer and guitarist Sylvia Vanterpool, of American R&B duo Mickey & Sylvia, with a Gibson 'Les Paul' solid body electric guitar, in a...
American singer and guitarist Sylvia Vanterpool, wearing a short-sleeve crew-neck outfit, of American R&B duo Mickey & Sylvia, playing a Gibson 'Les...
Tom Peeples, a technician, adjusts a navigation instrument for a NASA satellite at Honeywell's radiation Center at Lexington; the "operating room" is...
Portrait of American poet and author Nikki Giovanni as she sits beside a window in her hotel room, Chicago, Illinois, May 1, 1978.
American actress and comedian Whoopi Goldberg, wearing a sparkling black full-length evening gown, in the 63rd Academy Awards press room at the...
Man takes notes as a woman pours liquid from a measuring cup into a glass bottle in a laboratory, circa 1955.
Astronaut candidate Guion Bluford being measured for a helmet visor at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, circa January 1978. Bluford was...
