Most Famed Black USA actors & Celebs are known by all folks

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Diahann Carroll
American actress, singer and model.
She rose to stardom in performances
in some of the earliest major studio films
to feature black casts, including
Carmen Jones in 1954 and
Porgy and Bess in 1959. Wikipedia

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Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
American actor and singer.
He has appeared in a number of films
and television shows, including Claudine,
Cooley High, Roots, Welcome Back Kotter,
Bangers and Mash, and The Jacksons: An American Dream. Wikipedia

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Clarence Williams III
American actor. He played the character
"Linc Hayes" in the "hippie" cop show The Mod Squad. Wikipedia

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I can name Sammy Davis, Jr., Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, and Muhammad Ali, but they're all dead and I don't know anybody from pop culture after that era.
I suppose Barack Obama and Floyd Mayweather are two living African Americans. But among my fellow geriatrics up here in snow white suburban New England, those are the the only people of color of whom I'm aware.

I'm being facetious, of course, but what's the point of this thread? Are we going out of our way to sustain race-centric thinking?

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Pamela Grier
American actress. Grier became
known in the early 1970s for starring
in a string of 1970s women in prison
and blaxploitation films such as The Big Bird Cage,
Coffy, Foxy Brown, and Sheba, Baby. Wikipedia

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Jim Kelly
American athlete, actor,
and martial artist. Kelly rose
to fame in the early 1970s appearing
in several blaxploitation films. Kelly
is perhaps best known for his role as
Williams in the 1973 martial arts action
film Enter the Dragon. Wikipedia

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Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, better known by his stage name Bernie Mac, was an American comedian, actor, and voice actor. Born and raised on Chicago's South Side, Mac gained popularity as a stand-up comedian. He joined fellow comedians Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, and D. L. Wikipedia
Born: October 5, 1957, Chicago, IL
Died: August 9, 2008, Chicago, IL
COD: sarcoidosis

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Pamela Grier
American actress. Grier became
known in the early 1970s for starring
in a string of 1970s women in prison
and blaxploitation films such as The Big Bird Cage,
Coffy, Foxy Brown, and Sheba, Baby. Wikipedia

Great pic, thanks for posting!

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