The multiracial Tiger Woods is the world's most famous and wealthiest athlete in earnings and product endorsements.
Major League Baseball – America's pastime – is composed of 40 percent black, Latino and Asian players.
The Super Bowl, the most-watched sporting event in America, recently featured two teams headed by black coaches.
Black females have won the Miss America beauty pageant.
Black economist and best-selling author Thomas Sowell, based on the number of newspapers that carry his column, is one of the country's top 10 columnists.
"The Cosby Show," a positive, upbeat sitcom about a black, upper-middle-class family, reigned for years as America's most-watched television program.
Black faces on television abound – in commercials, as local and national news anchors and in shows playing a variety of characters – from doctors and lawyers up to and including the president of the United States.
Will Smith, a black actor, tops the list of the nation's movie box-office stars.
Black actor Samuel L. Jackson appeared in more movies than any other actor of any color during the 1990s.
Black television host Oprah Winfrey, arguably one of the most powerful television personalities in the history of the medium, has amassed, to date, a fortune estimated at $2.5 billion.
Blacks serve or have served as mayors in many American cities, including the three largest – New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
The current speaker of the California Assembly is the first black woman to head a statewide legislative body.