Category: Black Excellence

https://events.ncchc.org/national-conference/speaker/1333202/latoya-duckworth

Ms. LaToya Duckworth is a Nurse Administrator for Kansas University Medical Center which ensures that quality healthcare services are provided to the prison population under the Kansas Department of Corrections jurisdiction. Ms. Duckworth’s passion for the multifaceted field of nursing led her to a career that she describes as the most self-fulfilling journey she has ever embarked upon.

New Members Welcomed to NCCHC Board

NCCHC welcomes three new members to its multidisciplinary Board of Representatives.

LaToya Duckworth, MHA, BSN, CCHP, is the newly appointed board liaison for the American Nurses Association. She is the nurse administrator for the Kansas Department of Corrections where she assures health care compliance through contract monitoring and serves as risk coordinator. Previously she was assistant division director for medical services with the Missouri Department of Corrections. She replaces Mary Muse, MSN, RN, CCHP-RN, CCHP-A, who represented the ANA for 10 years.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/01/1077362195/without-inventor-james-west-this-interview-might-not-have-been-possible

James West has been a curious tinkerer since he was a child, always wondering how things worked. Throughout his long career in STEM, he’s also been an advocate for diversity and inclusion — from co-founding the Association for Black Laboratory Employees in 1970 to his work today with The Ingenuity Project, a non-profit that cultivates math and science skills in middle and high school students in Baltimore public schools.

James West is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and mechanical engineering.

He is known worldwide as the co-inventor of the foil electret microphone. This is a type of condenser microphone upon which 90 percent of all microphones used today are based (such as telephones, sound and music recording equipment, and hearing aids). West developed the invention with his research partner Gerhard Sessler in 1962 while both were scientists at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hills, NJ.

https://www.joshuaconyers.com/about.html

Grammy-nominated Baritone Joshua Conyers has been singled out by Opera News for his “deliciously honeyed baritone that would seduce anyone” by The New York Times as having “a sonorous baritone” that “wheedled and seduced” and by The Washington Post for have a “show stealing” performance. A native of Bronx, NY, he has been hailed by critics for his performances of new and standard operatic works, as well as on concert stages in North America and internationally.

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

Morgan Price (born June 28, 2005) is an American artistic gymnast for Fisk University.

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

Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin (born November 29, 1966)^[1] is an American actor, youth counselor, creative arts specialist, and gang intervention specialist. He portrayed a fictionalized version of himself in the 2023 film Sing Sing. His performance earned him nominations for Best Supporting Actor at the BAFTA Awards, Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, Gotham Awards, and Independent Spirit Awards. Additionally, Maclin is nominated for the 2025 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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

Joy-Ann M. Lomena-Reid (née Lomena; born December 8, 1968) is an American political commentator and television host.^[3][4] She was a national correspondent for MSNBC^[5] and is best known for hosting the political commentary program The ReidOut from 2020 to 2025. Her previous anchoring credits include The Reid Report (2014–2015) and AM Joy (2016–2020).^[6]

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/27/1152155481/meal-prep-made-easy

When Kevin Curry was growing up, he never had to think about cooking meals for himself. His parents were in charge of dinner.

As he got older, he realized, “Whoa. I have to feed myself. How do I do that?” he says. What’s more, he wanted to eat healthy food without spending hundreds of dollars a month eating out.

So Curry turned to meal prepping as a solution. It’s the concept of cooking food ahead of time to eat later. That can mean making meals on Sunday and eating the leftovers all week or prepping ingredients and freezing them to eat sometime in the future.

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https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5203031/abel-selaocoe-hymns-of-bantu

South African cellist Abel Selaocoe fosters dialogue across time and cultures in a new album

Strings and wood become harp and drum accompanying cellist Abel Selaocoe’s chants and throat singing in his new album Hymns of Bantu, out this month. It’s just one of the many ways he makes alchemy out of blended Western and African traditions.

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

Angela James OC^[1] (born December 22, 1964) is a Canadian former ice hockey player who played at the highest levels of senior hockey between 1980 and 2000. She was a member of numerous teams in the Central Ontario Women’s Hockey League (COWHL) from its founding in 1980 until 1998 and finished her career in the National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL). She was named her league’s most valuable player six times. James is also a certified referee in Canada, and a coach. She lives in Richmond Hill, Ontario.

https://teamevansville.com

Mayor Stephanie Terry, the 35th Mayor of Evansville, is the first woman and the first African American to serve in this position. Prior to being elected Mayor, Terry served on the Vanderburgh County Council and was the Executive Director of the Louis J. Koch Family Children’s Museum of Evansville (cMoe). Born and raised in Evansville, Mayor Terry is a proud graduate of Bosse High School and feels extremely blessed to lead the city that she loves. Mayor Terry and her administration aim to truly make Evansville a city that works for everyone.