Home • News #WeAreBlackHistory Pays Homage to Black Icons Style Influencers Group taps digital leaders to recreate images of the past. By Photos by Jerome A. Shaw · Updated October 27, 2020 01 #WeAreBlackHistory Kela Walker and Feminista Jones as Betty Shabazz and Coretta Scott King. 02 #WeAreBlackHistory Feminista Jones as Betty Shabazz. 03 #WeAreBlackHistory ESSENCE.com Hair and Beauty Editor, Deena Campbell as Maya Angelou. 04 #WeAreBlackHistory Jamilah Lemieux as Angela Davis. 05 #WeAreBlackHistory Julee Wilson as Rosa Parks. 06 #WeAreBlackHistory Taren Guy as Billie Holiday. 07 #WeAreBlackHistory Christina Brown as Madame C. J. Walker. Hair by True Indian Hair 08 #WeAreBlackHistory Danielle Kwateng as Bethann Hardison. 09 #WeAreBlackHistory Jessica Andrews as Diahann Carroll. Hair by True Indian Hair 10 #WeAreBlackHistory Jessie Adore as Pearl Bailey. 11 #WeAreBlackHistory Kéla Walker as Coretta Scott King. Hair by True Indian Hair 12 #WeAreBlackHistory Lexi Felder as Dorothy Dandridge.