BIOGRAPHY

Actor Tom Cruise has starred in the box-office hits Risky Business, Top Gun, Jerry Maguire, and the Mission: Impossible franchise.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is the first woman as well as first Black person and Asian American to hold the position.

Desi Arnaz was a Cuban-born actor and musician who is remembered for his marriage to Lucille Ball and their TV show, ‘I Love Lucy.’

Charles Drew was an African American surgeon who pioneered methods of storing blood plasma for transfusion and organized the first large-scale blood bank in the U.S.

American Mary Cassatt was one of the leading artists in the Impressionist movement of the later part of the 1800s.

Singer-songwriter Grace Slick was one of the lead singers for the band Jefferson Airplane. She wrote the song “White Rabbit” and sang the popular tune “Somebody to Love.”

Actress and singer Judy Garland was the star of many classic musical films, including ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ and known for her tremendous talent and troubled life.

Ray Charles was a pioneer of soul music, integrating R&B, gospel, pop and country to create hits like “Unchain My Heart,” “Hit the Road Jack” and “Georgia on My Mind.”

Serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson, also known as the “Happy Face Killer,” brutally murdered eight women between 1990 and 1995.

Famous 20th-century artist Jackson Pollock revolutionized the world of modern art with his unique abstract painting techniques.