Here are 30 porn performers who shaped the adult industry with their unforgettable careers. This isn't an all-encompassing list of influential black performers, as there many still, but these stars undeniably made a name for themselves in adult entertainment and paved a way for their successors. The adult industry, while not without its own problems regarding race, created markets of influence and opportunity for black performers early in the business' inception, and continues to do so to this day.
With anything we enjoy present-day (porn included), we should take time to reflect upon the contributions provided us by people of color-not just in February for Black History Month, but year-round.
