Category: Black Excellence

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

Belinda Magnus OBE DL (born 23 October 1953), better known as Pauline Black (Listen^ⓘ), is an English singer, actress and author.

In a music career spanning over 40 years, Black came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead singer of the 2 Tone ska revival band the Selecter, which released four singles that entered the Top 40 charts in the United Kingdom during the 1970s and the 1980s, including “On My Radio“, “Three Minute Hero“, “Missing Words” and “The Whisper”.

https://www.broadwaydancecenter.com/faculty/ebony-williams

Boradway Dance Center Teacher Bio

Ebony Williams comes from Boston, Massachusetts, where she trained with the Boston Ballet from age eight through high school. She also attended the Roxbury Center for the Performing Arts. She is a May 2005 graduate of the Boston Conservatory with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/dallas-fort-worth/news/2023/04/18/four-time-all-american-chae-campbell-reflects-on-her-journey-to-become-a-bruin

Chae Campbell is a four-time All-American gymnast for the UCLA Bruins She is a Carrollton, Texas, native and grew up watching the 2010 UCLA national championship team, which inspired her to compete for the Bruins herself
Campbell was a main contributor to UCLA’s success this season, reaching the national stage at Dickie’s Arena in Fort Worth

Aaron L Williams is a film producer/director/writer, software architect, and musician native to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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

Frantz Casseus (14 December 1915 – 3 June 1993)^[1] was a Haitian-American guitarist and composer.

Born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, he spent most of his adult life in the United States where he immigrated in 1946 hoping to meet pianist Fats Waller.^[2]

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/20/1128713485/leyla-mccalla-tiny-desk-concert?ft=nprml&f=1002

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

Leyla Sarah McCalla^[1] (born October 3,^[2] 1985)^[3] is an American classical and folk musician.^[4] She was a cellist with the Grammy Award-winning^[5] string band Carolina Chocolate Drops,^[6] but left to focus on her solo career.^[7]

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/27/1227116952/fulton-county-ga-2024-election-workers

They watched 2 election workers face abuse, and it’s compelling them to serve in 2024

Founder and CEO of Urban Intellectuals and Sankofa Club

Visionary, entrepreneur and philanthropist; just a few words that describe, Freddie E. Taylor, founder and CEO of Urban Intellectuals(UI).

Spurred by the lack of Black history instruction that his sons received in grammar school, Freddie knew the onus was on him to create a new narrative of Black culture, and in 2009, UI was born.

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

Kara Jackson is from Oak Park, Illinois and attended Oak Park River Forest High School, where she participated in spoken word.^[1][2][3] Jackson also participated in a jazz ensemble at Merit School of Music, and was the Youth Poet Laureate of Chicago in 2018.^[4][5][6] She performed at the Louder Than a Bomb 2018 finals and was selected by Patricia Smith for the Literary Award.^[4][5][7] In 2019, she was named the United States National Youth Poet Laureate from after submitting an essay on poetry and democracy.^[8][9][10] In the same year, she published a chapbook of poetry, Bloodstone Cowboy.^[11][12] She studied English at Smith College, graduating in 2023.^[13][14] Her work has appeared in Poetry, Frontier Poetry, Rookie Mag, Nimrod Literary Journal, The Lily, and Saint Heron.^[15]