The honorees

Our calendars have told the stories of more than 300 inspiring individuals. Scroll through this list to find out more about each of them.

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1982 CALENDAR

1983 CALENDAR

  • Frederick Douglas
  • Nat “King” Cole
  • A. Philip Randolph
  • Matthew Henson
  • Mary McLeod Bethune
  • Jesse Owens
  • Sarah “Madam C.J.” Walker
  • Daniel Hale Williams

1984 CALENDAR

  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Jean Baptiste Point De Sable
  • W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • George Washington Carver
  • Harriet Tubman

1985 CALENDAR

  • Eubie Blake
  • Constance Baker Motley
  • John Hope
  • William Augustus Hinton
  • Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
  • Ralph Johnson Bunche
  • Matilda E. Evans, M.D.

1986 CALENDAR

  • Lulu Vere Childers
  • James Pierson-Beckwourth
  • Jesse Leroy Brown
  • Ida Bell Wells-Barnett
  • William Warrick Cardozo
  • Susan Maria Smith McKinney Steward

1987 CALENDAR

  • Marshall W. “Major” Taylor
  • Bert Williams
  • Dorothy Dandridge
  • Nat Love
  • Scott Joplin
  • Whitney M. Young Jr.
  • Mary Eliza Mahoney
  • Arthur Alfonso Schomburg

1988 CALENDAR

  • Caroline V. Still Anderson
  • Josephine Baker
  • Oscan Micheaux
  • Richard Allen
  • Bill “Bojangles” Robinson
  • Tuskegee Airmen
  • John B. Russwurm

1989 CALENDAR

  • Thomas Greene Bethune
  • Charlotte Hawkins Brown
  • Elijah McCoy
  • Blanche Kelso Bruce
  • Patricia Roberts Harris
  • Richard Robert Wright

1990 CALENDAR

  • Milt Hinton
  • Cabell “Cab” Calloway III
  • John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie
  • Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong
  • Eubie Blake

1991 CALENDAR

  • Alice Coachman
  • Isaac Murphy
  • Jackie Robinson

1992 CALENDAR

1993 CALENDAR

  • Daniel Hale Williams, M.D.
  • M. Joycelyn Elders, M.D.
  • Harold P. Freeman, M.D.
  • James R. Gavin III, M.D., Ph.D.

1994 CALENDAR

1995 CALENDAR

1996 CALENDAR

1997 CALENDAR

  • Yvonne L.C. Bronner, Sc.D., R.D., L.D.
  • Joseph M. Stewart
  • William (Bill) Williams

1998 CALENDAR

1999 CALENDAR

2000 CALENDAR

  • Booker T. Washington
  • Sarah “Madam C.J.” Walker
  • Edward Kennedy ”Duke” Ellington
  • Howard Thurman
  • Langston Hughes
  • Charles Richard Drew, M.D.
  • Thurgood Marshall
  • Jacob Lawrence
  • Jackie Robinson
  • Malcolm X
  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Oprah Gail Winfrey

2001 CALENDAR

  • Lincoln University of Pennsylvania
  • Morehouse College
  • Spelman Collete

2002 CALENDAR

2003 CALENDAR

2004 CALENDAR

2005 CALENDAR

2006 CALENDAR

  • Sampson Davis
  • Yvonne T. Maddon, Ph.D.
  • Betty S. Pace, M.D,
  • Michael A. LeNoir, M.D.
  • Rovenia Brock, Ph.D.
  • The Three Doctors
  • Loretta Sweet Jammott, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.
  • Pebbles Fagan, Ph.D., M.P.H.
  • B. Waine Kong, Ph.D., J.D.
  • Rameck Hunt
  • George Jenkins
  • LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., M.D., F.A.C.S.
  • James Whitfield Reed, M.D., M.A.C.P., F.A.C.E
  • Sharon Allison-Ottey, M.D.
  • Dexter L. Campinha-Bacote, M.D.

2007 CALENDAR

2008 CALENDAR

  • Janet Ohene-Frempong, M.S. (intro)
  • Derek E. Faison
  • Jo Ann Pegues
  • Kari Trotter Wall, Pharm. D.
  • Carolyn Barley Britton, M.D., M.S.
  • M. Elizabeth Carnegie
  • Sharon L. Youmans, Pharm. D., M.P.H.
  • Norma J. Goodwin, M.D.
  • Nathan Fletcher, D.D.S
  • Alison Riddle-Fletcher, D.D.S.
  • Ira F. Combs, R.N., B.S.
  • Cheryl E. Woodson, M.D., F.A.C.P., A.G.S.F
  • Luvenia W. Cowart, Ed.D., R.N.
  • Ella Williamson, L.M.S.W.
  • Ella Garner Jackson, R.N.
  • Bishop Ronnie C. Crudup, Sr.
  • Lee Moultrie II
  • Kim Williams-Odom

2009 CALENDAR

2010 CALENDAR

2011 CALENDAR

  • Rev. Anthony Evans
  • Byron Benton
  • Angela Griffin, P.T., M.A.
  • Angela Brown
  • Yasmeen Hadaway
  • Stephanie Joy Jackson-Rowe, B.A., M.S., IMC
  • Jan Willis
  • Leroy M. Graham, M.D.
  • Rev. Mary Diggs Hobson
  • John Butler III (Janardana Dasa)
  • Rev. James Patterson
  • Rabbi Capers C. Funnye, Jr.
  • Safiyah Abdul Khaaliq
  • Bishop T.D. Jakes
  • Pernessa Seele

2012 CALENDAR

2013 CALENDAR

  • Stella A. Stepney, M.S., ATR-BC, LCAT
  • Wentworth Jarrett, M.D.
  • Jamela Franklin, Ed.M., M.A.
  • Cynthia Shelby-Lane, M.D.
  • George T. Mumford, M.Ed.
  • Angela Tatum Fairfax, Ph.D.
  • Lester L. Carter, Jr., R.Ph.
  • Ifeoma Ikenze, M.D.
  • Rolf Gates
  • Folashade Omole, M.D., FAAFP, CPEHR
  • Andrea D. Sullivan, Ph.D., N.D.
  • Juneau K. Robbins, D.C.

2014 CALENDAR

2015 CALENDAR

2016 CALENDAR