Obama? Angelou?
A few better choices below. People who follow the American spirit by inventing, building, innovating... People who created jobs if not entire industries. People who changed lives.
Henry Ford
Louis Chevrolet / William Durant
Horace & John Dodge
George Eastman
Thomas Edison
J.P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Alexander Graham Bell
Benjamin Franklin
Samuel Colt
Eliphalet Remington
William Ruger
Charles Goodyear
Could go on and on. I acknowledge that there’s a certain commonality among these men that is demonized. A damn shame, they should stand on their accomplishments alone.
Even if you want to name your school after a Black American there are a whole slew of better choices than Obama and Angelou.