• "Barack the Magic Negro" is a controversial satirical song by Paul Shanklin which refers to Barack Obama as a magical Negro?

Facts on topics related to Magical Negro

Fictional character

• Arthur Ransome's fictional pirate Nancy Blackett, captain of the Amazon, does not use her real name Ruth because "Amazons are ruthless"?
• George E. Studdy was a British artist best remembered for his creation of Bonzo the dog, a fictional character, in the early 1920s?
• Lamb Chop is a fictional sheep that was created by comedienne and ventriloquist Shari Lewis and first appeared on the children's morning television show Captain Kangaroo in 1957?
• in the animated Laff-a-Lympics, non-competing Hanna-Barbera characters such as Fred Flintstone and Jabberjaw made appearances as guest announcers?
  
• the fictional character "Thirteen" in the FOX medical drama House is referred to as such on the show's daily call sheets to further propagate an inside joke within the show's narrative?
• the fictional character Axel Brass is able to go without sleep or sustenance for years?
• the Squander Bug was a propaganda character created to encourage saving in the United Kingdom during World War II?
• the Smallville version of fictional character Lex Luthor was written to be likeable and vulnerable instead of comedic?

African American

• African American economist Abram Lincoln Harris was a four-time recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in economics?
• African American actor Lorenzo Tucker, the star of the 1932 race film Veiled Aristocrats, was dubbed the "black Valentino" because of his striking good looks?
• African American artist James W. Washington, Jr. first gained visibility in 1938 working with the WPA in his native Mississippi, but was later associated with the Northwest School?
• African American civil rights activist Mel Boozer was the first openly gay person nominated for the office of Vice President of the United States?
• African American singer Cora Green performed the Yiddish tune Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen in the 1938 race film Swing!?
• black Baptist minister and former slave R. H. Boyd had so much success in religious publishing that it caused a split in his denomination?
• center George Gregory led the Columbia Lions in 1930–31 to its first title in what was to become the Ivy League, and was later named as the first African American All-American basketball player?
• Louisiana Judge Kernan "Skip" Hand was overruled in 2008 by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the exclusion of two blacks as jurors in a high-profile murder case?
• Rear Admiral Evelyn J. Fields is the first woman and first African American to be the director of the Office of NOAA Corps Operations and the NOAA Commissioned Corps?
• 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, site of the 1963 church bombing, was designed in 1911 by noted African American architect Wallace Rayfield?