Black Excellence: Dr. Kathy Bullock

https://www.kathybullock.com/about-me

Dr. Kathy Bullock is an educator, scholar, singer, accompanist, arranger and choral conductor who specializes in gospel music, spirituals and classical works by composers from the African diaspora.  A Professor Emerita of Music from Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, she currently teaches, performs, and conducts workshops and other programs on African American music throughout the United States, Europe, and Africa.

Black Excellence: Rungano Nyoni

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/07/nx-s1-5307290/on-becoming-a-guinea-fowl-movie-review

Filmmaker Rungano Nyoni’s spellbinding melodrama On Becoming a Guinea Fowl begins with a woman named Shula (Susan Chardy) happening upon the dead body of her Uncle Fred on the side of an empty dirt road in Zambia one evening. Shula is eerily unmoved. She in fact appears more inconvenienced and annoyed than anything else — now she must wait with him until the authorities come, which takes hours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rungano_Nyoni

Rungano Nyoni is a British, screenwriter and actress.[1] She is known for the film I Am Not a Witch, which she wrote and directed. The film won Nyoni the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut in 2018 and has also garnered accolades from international film festivals. Her 2009 film, The List, won the Welsh BAFTA Award for Best Short Film.[3]

Black Excellence: Grace Wales Bonner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Wales_Bonner

Grace Wales Bonner MBE is an English fashion designer.[1] Her designs blend sportswear and tailoring.[2] In 2014, she founded the London-based label Wales Bonner, originally specializing in menswear.[1][3]

Since founding her eponymous brand, Wales Bonner awards include Emerging Menswear Designer at the British Fashion Awards (2015), the LVMH Young Designer Prize (2016), Winner of the British Fashion Council/ Vogue Designer Fashion Fund (2019) and CFDA International Men’s Designer of the Year (2021). In June 2022, she was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to fashion. Wales Bonner is the head of the department of Fashion Design at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.[1]

Black Excellence: Adelaide Hall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide_Hall

Adelaide Louise Hall (20 October 1901 – 7 November 1993) was an American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer. Her career spanned more than 70 years from 1921 until her death. Early in her career, she was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance; she became based in the UK after 1938.[1][2][3] Hall entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 2003 as the world’s most enduring recording artist, having released material over eight consecutive decades.[4] She performed with major artists such as Art Tatum,[5] Ethel Waters, Josephine Baker, Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Cab Calloway, Fela Sowande,[6] Rudy Vallee,[7] and Jools Holland, and recorded as a jazz singer with Duke Ellington (with whom she made her most famous recording, “Creole Love Call” in 1927)[8] and with Fats Waller.[9][10][11][12]

Black Excellence: Monica L. Miller

https://barnard.edu/profiles/monica-l-miller

Monica L. Miller, Professor of Africana Studies, joined the faculty of Barnard in 2001.

Professor Miller specializes in African-American and American literature and cultural studies. Her research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century African-American literature, film, and contemporary art; contemporary literature and cultural studies of the black diaspora; performance studies; and intersectional studies of race, gender, and sexuality. 

Black Excellence: Dr. Okello “Paul” Aliker

https://agln.aspeninstitute.org/profile/2301

Okello “Paul” Aliker is a general dentist and CEO of The Dental Studio in Kampala, Uganda. A second generation dentist, Paul practiced briefly in Illinois before pursuing his dream of returning to Africa and setting up a practice in his own country. The Dental Studio is acknowledged as a leading dental practice in eastern Africa and draws patients from throughout the region.

Black Excellence: Alice Walker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Walker

Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944)[2] is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple.[3][4] Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry.