Black Excellence: Hydeia Broadbent
Hydeia Broadbent, known for raising awareness to lessen the stigma around HIV/AIDS from a young age, has died at 39 years old. She was one of the faces of children with AIDS in America, especially within the African American community.
Black Excellence: Daymé Arocena
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daym%C3%A9_Arocena
Daymé Arocena (born January 1992) is an Afro-Cubanjazz singer from Havana,[1][2][3] who has been described as Cuba‘s “finest young female singer.”[4]
She will perform at Mass MoCA on March 9, 2024!
Black Excellence: Nailah Hunter
Los Angeles-based harpist and composer,Nailah Hunter forges her own dark fantasy on ‘Lovegaze’
Black Excellence: Korva Coleman
Korva Coleman, award winning newscaster for NPR, from Phoenix, Arizona is known for writing, producing, and delivering daily national newscasts airing during NPR’s news magazines, All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition.
Black Excellence: Makoy Samuel Yibi
https://www.exemplars.health/stories/how-south-sudan-is-ending-guinea-worm-disease
National Director of South Sudan’s Guinea Worm Eradication Program
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Heroes-in-the-Field-Makoy-Samuel-Yibi
Black Excellence: Nina Mae McKinney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Mae_McKinney
Nina Mae McKinney (June 12, 1912 – May 3, 1967) was an American actress who worked internationally during the 1930s and in the postwar period in theatre, film and television, after beginning her career on Broadway and in Hollywood.
Black Excellence: Titus Kaphar
Titus Kaphar is an artist whose paintings, sculptures, and installations examine the history of representation by transforming its styles and mediums with formal innovations to emphasize the physicality and dimensionality of the canvas and materials themselves.