Black Excellence: Sasheer Zamata
Sasheer Zamata’s new special is an ode to women, mental health and witches.
Black Excellence: Bolaji Badejo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolaji_Badejo
Bolaji Badejo (Listeni) (23 August 1953 – 22 December 1992) was a Nigerian visual artist[1] and actor. He was known for playing the Alien in Ridley Scott‘s 1979 film Alien.[2]
Black Excellence: Jesmyn Ward
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesmyn_Ward
Jesmyn Ward (born April 1, 1977)[1] is an American novelist and a Professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities.[2]
Black Excellence: George Chidi
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/george-chidi
George Chidi is a journalist and consultant who writes at the Georgia-focused Peach Pundit team blog and serves on the city council of Pine Lake, Georgia (population 680, not counting geese).
Black Excellence: Dr. Barbara Stroud
Biography
Barbara Stroud, PhD, is a licensed psychologist with over three decades worth of culturally informed clinical practice in early childhood development and mental health.
Black Excellence: Elmo Hope
An Elmo Hope centennial celebration: Giving a jazz piano pioneer his due
Black Excellence: Bessie Stringfield
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Stringfield
Bessie Stringfield (born Betsy Beatrice White; 1911 or 1912 – February 16, 1993), also known as the “Motorcycle Queen of Miami”, was an American motorcyclist who was the first African-American woman to ride across the United States solo, and was one of the few civilian motorcycle dispatch riders for the US Army during World War II.[2][3]
Black Excellence: Shane McCrae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_McCrae
Shane McCrae (born September 22, 1975, Portland, Oregon)[1] is an American poet, and is currently Poetry Editor of Image.[2]
Black Excellence: Stephen Wiltshire
https://www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk/biography
Stephen Wiltshire MBE, Hon.FSAI, Hon.FSSAA is an artist who draws and paints detailed cityscapes. He has a particular talent for drawing lifelike, accurate representations of cities, sometimes after having only observed them briefly. He was awarded an MBE for services to the art world in 2006. He studied Fine Art at City & Guilds Art College. His drawings are popular all over the world, and are held in a number of museums and important private and public collections.