“Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.”
| Casey Affleck, Actor (1975) |
| Hans Urs Von Balthasar, Theologian (1905) |
| Katharine Lee Bates, Author (1859) |
| John Cazale, Actor (1935) |
| Cecil B. DeMille, Producer (1881) |
| Dorothy Denning, Public Servant (1945) |
| John Derek, Actor (1926) |
| Radclyffe Hall, Poet (1880) |
| Edith Hamilton, Writer (1867) |
| Sam J. Jones, Actor (1954) |
| Luther Allison, Musician (1997) |
| Jean-Michel Basquiat, Artist (1988) |
| John Cage, Composer (1992) |
| Ian Fleming, Author (1964) |
| Henry Fonda, Actor (1982) |
| Esther Forbes, Author (1967) |
| Albert Gallatin, Statesman (1849) |
| Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer (1885) |