Black Excellence: Sarah Akinbuwa
A Somerville teen crocheted her prom dress in three days. Her video of the design process went viral.
Black Excellence: b. Robert Moore
For b. Robert Moore, art is personal — and political.
The Des Moines-based artist does not shy away from sharing the scars of his past in his new exhibition “In Loving Memory,” on display at the Des Moines Art Center through Oct. 20.
Black Excellence: Tessie Prevost
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/09/nx-s1-5034337/tessie-prevost-new-orleans-school-desegregation-dies
NEW ORLEANS — Tessie Prevost, a pioneer of school desegregation in the Deep South, has died.
She was one of the first young Black girls who integrated New Orleans public schools after federal courts forced the system to abide by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown vs. the Board of Education ruling that declared segregated schools unconstitutional.
Black Excellence: Zarinah Lomax
Zarinah Lomax is an uncommon documentarian of our times. She has designed dresses from yellow crime-scene tape and styled jackets with hand-painted demands like “Don’t Shoot” in purple, black, and gold script. Every few months, she curates exhibits of dozens of portraits of Philadelphians — vibrant, bold, bigger-than-life faces — at pop-up galleries to raise an alarm about gun violence in her hometown and America.
Black Excellence: Crystal Wilkinson
https://www.crystalewilkinson.net/bio
Crystal Wilkinson, a recent fellowship recipient of the Academy of American Poets, is the award-winning author of Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts, a culinary memoir, Perfect Black, a collection of poems, and three works of fiction—The Birds of Opulence , Water Street and Blackberries, Blackberries.
Black Excellence: Jo and Joy Banner
Louisiana plantation where historic slave revolt started now under Black ownership
https://www.thedescendantsproject.org
Banner and her twin sister Joy are co-founders of the Descendants Project, a non-profit in Louisiana’s heavily industrialized river parishes – just west of New Orleans. Early this year, the group bought the Woodland Plantation Home, putting it in Black ownership for the first time in more than two centuries.
Black Excellence: World 2 the Whyze
https://www.world2thewhyze.com/about
World 2 the Whyze belivies that the world is filled with wisdom and we should be guided by our curiosity to make our way around it and explore
Who we are
MIssion
To create experiences and resources that encourage travelers folks to explore their connection and commitment to the African Diaspora.
Vision
A world where Black people are Borderless, Intentionally Interconnected, Joyful & Independent.
Black Excellence: Quincy Wilson
Sweet 16: Quincy Wilson headed to Paris as youngest U.S. male track Olympian ever
Wilson will be a part of the U.S. 4×400 relay team.
Black Excellence: Simone Manuel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Manuel
Simone Ashley Manuel (born August 2, 1996[1]) is an American professional swimmer specializing in freestyle events.
Black Excellence: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_McLaughlin-Levrone
Sydney Michelle McLaughlin-Levrone (née McLaughlin; born August 7, 1999) is an American hurdler and sprinter who competes in the 400 meters hurdles.