The Ebony Power 150, FYI

April 15th, 2009 53 Comments 4979 Views

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Ebony put a list together that spans Politics, Religion, Business, Arts, and more, and they came up with the most 150 influential black people in those fields:

The “Ebony Power 150” was compiled by the editors of Ebony, in consultation with national experts and leaders in their fields. Being on the list does not necessarily constitute an endorsement of any particular individual or ideology.

Two criteria guided the editors who made the final recommendations:

In the past year, did the individual transcend his or her position and exhibit widespread national influence?

In the past year, did the individual affect in a decisive and positive way the lives, thinking and actions of large segments of the African-American population, either by his or her position in a key group, or by his or her personal reach and influence?

Although our list is populated by dynamic individuals with extensive résumés, space limitations allow us to highlight only one of their many accomplishments.

POLITICS AND LAW:
President Barack Obama

U.S. Rep. SANFORD D. BISHOP JR. (Ga.)

U.S. Rep. CORRINE BROWN (Fla.)

U.S. Rep. G.K. BUTTERFIELD (N.C.)

U.S. Rep. ANDRE CARSON (Ind.)

DONNA CHRISTIAN-CHRISTENSEN
Congressional Delegate (Virgin Islands)

RELIGION:
BISHOP CHARLES E. BLAKE
Presiding bishop, Church of God In Christ, Inc.

THE REV. DR. CALVIN O. BUTTS
Pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem
President of the State University of New York College at Old Westbury

BISHOP WILLIAM PHILLIPS DEVEAUX SR.
General board president, A.M.E. Church

MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN
Nation of Islam leader

BISHOP WILLIAM H. GRAVES
Senior bishop and CEO of the C.M.E. Church

MOST REV. WILTON D. GREGORY
Sixth Archbishop of Atlanta (Catholic)

BISHOP T.D. JAKES
Pastor and founder of The Potter’s House, author, entrepreneur

EDUCATION AND HEALTH:
LERONE BENNETT JR.
Author, historian, lecturer

L.D. BRITT, M.D.
Chair of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) board of the regents

GEOFFREY CANADA
President/CEO Harlem Children’s Zone

DR. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
Scholar, author and professor
Georgetown University

DR. JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN
Historian and professor emeritus of history Duke University

BUSINESS:
DON. H. BARDEN
Owner/Chairman/CEO, The Barden Companies, Inc.

URSULA M. BURNS
President, Xerox Corporation

SHAWN (JAY-Z) CARTER
Music producer/entrepreneur

KENNETH I. CHENAULT
Chairman/CEO, American Express

SEAN (DIDDY) COMBS
Entertainment producer/founder of Sean John

EARL G. GRAVES
Chairman, Earl G. Graves Ltd., founder/publisher of Black Enterprise Magazine

ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT & MEDIA:

TYRA BANKS
Talk show host, television producer and entrepreneur

DEBRA MARTIN CHASE
Film and television producer whose company, Martin Chase Productions, is an affiliate of the Walt Disney Company

ERIC DEGGANS
TV/media critic at the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times

KIRK FRANKLIN
Gospel artist, author and entrepreneur

THELMA GOLDEN
Director and chief curator, the Studio Museum in Harlem

MILITARY & PUBLIC SERVICE:

MAJ. SHAWNA KIMBRELL
555th Fighter Squadron, first Black female fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force

GEN. WILLIAM E. (KIP) WARD
Commander of the U.S. Africa Command

DJ BEVERLY BOND
Founder Black Girls Rock Foundation

MAJORA CARTER
Environmentalist, Founder, Sustainable South Bronx

DR. WILLIAM H. (BILL) COSBY JR.
Entertainer, actor, activist, philanthropist

DON CHEADLE
Actor, human rights activist, President and CEO of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

We definitely need to recognize the influential minorities in all of these related fields and make sure that we are replenishing the pipelines with the most qualified young folk to keep pushing forward.

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53 Responses to “The Ebony Power 150, FYI”

Ms Rita Babie

4/15/09, 11:43:am

I love you Obama

john hope franklin

4/15/09, 11:44:am

the business!!!

roy

4/15/09, 11:44:am

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The Main Ingredient

4/15/09, 11:48:am

top 5 dead or alive

Moreaces

4/15/09, 11:50:am

Mr. President, You are just to smooth.. I love you.

Hannibal

4/15/09, 11:50:am

I SEE JAY-Z IS ON THE LIST…

Marquis de Sade

4/15/09, 11:51:am

Where’s Clarence Thomas? This is not only a gross oversight, but an outrage!

Hannibal

4/15/09, 11:51:am

IF TYRA BANKS COULD MAKE THE LIST THEN I SHOULD BE ON IT AS WELL…

Barack Obama

4/15/09, 11:53:am

Moreaces

Mr. President, You are just to smooth.. I love you.

Yeah, whatever, *****. Get a job!

Marquis de Sade

4/15/09, 11:54:am

LOL at Barack.

Hannibal

4/15/09, 11:54:am

@BARACK OBAMA

LMFAO!!!

NY2CaliLVN

4/15/09, 12:06:pm

mmmmmmm where’s Opie

Mock Rock Star

4/15/09, 12:08:pm

Great picture of Barack…so is anyone going to a “tea-party” today???

DIAMONDCHEERS

4/15/09, 12:17:pm

**SMH** @ the thoughts I get when I c this pic…

Vee aka Bossladee

4/15/09, 12:36:pm

Ya know, I try to only think the purest of thoughts about our Dear Prez. But he is one sexy ***** in them shades…

pooka

4/15/09, 12:43:pm

OK if Seal was Barack, but still won our vote, would we still get wet in the panties all over this man, what i’m saying is…..is it a black thang, or is it a Barack thang….

Vee aka Bossladee

4/15/09, 12:46:pm

Uh for me–it is indeed a Barack thing.
However, Seal is not ‘handsome’ but he has his own sex-appeal/swag goin’ too now…

***** Said

4/15/09, 12:48:pm

What about Billie D Williams. Now thats a cool ***** *****a!

Meeko From Detroit (Home of Vicious Lions Tigers and Bears who will EAT YOU ALIVE)

4/15/09, 12:56:pm

Hannibal you sexy mother*****er….damn i want you (smile)

* I AM ROYALTY *

4/15/09, 12:57:pm

ALL THAT SWAGGA…

DICooper

4/15/09, 13:16:pm

Serious

blkbandit

4/15/09, 13:28:pm

So f*cking irrelevant.

This I Know

4/15/09, 13:37:pm

Wait a minute…

DON CHEADLE
Actor, human rights activist, President and CEO of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

Is this a typo? I thought Ralph Everett was the president of that group???

twinkle said it 1rst

4/15/09, 14:03:pm

We have such a handsome president!

snoop bloggy blog (

4/15/09, 14:16:pm

i demand the writer’s resignation whoever wrote this list and put tyra banks and no OPRAH!

ThatMiXedChiCk!

4/15/09, 14:34:pm

Soo I clicked the link to see the full list and it had Jesse Jackson..they lost me with that one.

Jesse Jackson- Child Outta Wedlock
Kirk Franklin- Was addicted to *****
Diddy- A bazillion kids and hasn’t married any of the mothers of his children

They Coulda put Michelle Obama on their too. And Oprah.

I’m glad they got my girl Tyra on their though

ThatMiXedChiCk!

4/15/09, 14:35:pm

What about Eric Jerome *****ey? His books are addicting

Roe ski Love - The checks in the mail

4/15/09, 15:16:pm

Marcus Garvey, Angela Davis, Huey P Newton, Stokley Carmichael, Harry Belafonte, Gordon Parks, Oscar Micheaux, Judith Jameson, The Tukeegee Airmen, and The Black Cowboys have all made significant contributions and sacrifices for the betterment of mankind. I forgot to mention George Washington Carver, Harriot Tubman and Nat Turner as well as Gary Coleman. (huh)just kidding!

Spartylicious

4/15/09, 15:21:pm

I never get enough of that pic of President Barack Hussein Obama. He makes our entire country look good.

Lady Next Door

4/15/09, 15:48:pm

I had a “no *****, sherlock” moment with Obama. I knew he’d be ont he list, but what about his wife?

snowbunny**********in

4/15/09, 15:51:pm

***** obama and every one tthat this is the *****

tony

4/15/09, 15:54:pm

Why is Jay-z on the list, he’s just another Drug Dealer turn rapper. That should want us to allow our children to look up to him. How many families has his drugs kill is he giving some of the money back to the souls he kill or the families.

pooka

4/15/09, 16:30:pm

@ snowbunny**********in: huh what what you say, say it one more gain please

Hey Pooka

4/15/09, 16:49:pm

snowbunny**********in dont need to say it again. Its 2 posts up READ IT AGAIN!!!! “one more gain” WTF!!

WhiteAndBlack

4/15/09, 18:39:pm

good looking WHITE and BLACK man.

11:11

4/15/09, 19:22:pm

That photo of him looks so suave.
white and black, shut up

11:11

4/15/09, 19:25:pm

@ That Mixed Chick
people are human, as are you. You gotta give it to those people-they are where they are because they are extraordinary.

MulattoMom

4/15/09, 19:39:pm

my president is black and hella fine too! that was corny but so what!

kwesi

4/15/09, 20:07:pm

why does it have to be black cool..cant it just be cool

me

4/15/09, 21:29:pm

What is with black people’s affinity with Obama’s swag? The man has none! Am I the only one that sees him for a phoney swagger jacker if anything? Everything he does is so obviously calculated… from his phoney “street” talk to him requiring a camera crew to film him practicing lay ups. Obama = Ned Flanders swag… props for becoming pres but he’s a CORNBALL for real. White man wearing black skin.

RoseyPinkBaby

4/15/09, 23:17:pm

Why must people hate? Obama is that deal whether he is president or not. Just look at him…and who is he “swagger jacking”?

Carmen Sans

4/15/09, 23:30:pm

Is it a sin to want to F!UK the President?

ThatMiiXedchiCk!

4/15/09, 23:34:pm

@11:11

I understand that people are human, but if they are gonna have a list of the Leaders of the black community,they should at least have some people on their who have consistently set good examples for our young black men. The fact that Jesse Jackson’s triflin ***** would be on the same list as Barack Obama get MAJOR side-eye from me.

white male

4/15/09, 23:39:pm

I hope obama does a good job

white male

4/15/09, 23:41:pm

influential and best role model not the same

Irish Hottie

4/16/09, 01:12:am

That is my man. For real! LOVE him!

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4/16/09, 02:30:am

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Davina

4/16/09, 05:26:am

This list is about “the past year” so it’s ok. It’s not in whole history!!!

About it

4/16/09, 14:44:pm

Great, great shot

Kp

4/17/09, 00:04:am

THERE GO MY FINE ***** PRESIDENT….WHOO!!! WAT I WOULDNT DO TO THAT MAN IF HE WERENT MARRIED…AHHH…BUT HE IS SO DAMN…I LOVE U BARACK!!!!

Bodyc

4/17/09, 00:52:am

Hi, Everything dynamic and very positively!
Bodyc

leave-it-be

4/17/09, 23:27:pm

=============== THE COOLEST PREZ THAT EVER SERVED THE US OF A!!! LOOKING LIKE (“MEN IN BLACK”) IN THE WORDS OF G.DUBYA BUSH=== GOD BLESS AMERICA , FINE; JUST A FINE SPECIMEN OF A BLACK MAN….. OOPS” SORRY MADAME OBAMA