Killer Mike

Michael Render might be as famous for his activism as for his music: Raised in the Adamsville-Collier Heights neighborhood, the Grammy-winning rapper served on Keisha Lance Bottoms’s mayoral transition team and was a prominent supporter of Bernie Sanders’s presidential bid. Render’s advocacy on behalf of the #BankBlack movement helped move an estimated $60 million to black-owned banking institutions, and he was recently appointed to the board of the High Museum of Art. Render performs as Killer Mike in the hip-hop duo Run the Jewels.