Category: Black Excellence

https://www.nkariuki.com/bio

Nyokabi Kariũki 🔊 (she/her) is a Kenyan composer, sound artist and performer.

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Maria Thompson Corley was born in Jamaica and raised in Canada. She has appeared as a solo or collaborative pianist on radio, television, and/or concert stages in North and Central America, the Caribbean, Bermuda and Europe, performing with artists like Metropolitan Opera soprano Priscilla Baskerville, Juno Award-winning clarinetist James Campbell, Grammy-winning clarinetist Doris Hall-Gulati, Grammy-nominated baritone Randall Scarlata, renowned countertenor Darryl Taylor, and members of the New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestras.

https://www.adsmm.org/index.php/payton-archive/adsmm-living-legends/68-jacqueline-hairston

Jacqueline Hairston is an Oakland/San Francisco-based ASCAP composer/arranger and vocal coach.

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/27/1151537063/hakeem-jeffries-democrats-house-debt-ceiling

Hakeem Jeffries says Democrats won’t pay a ‘ransom note’ to GOP over debt ceiling

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

Eartha Mae Kitt (born Eartha Mae Keith; January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American singer and actress known for her highly distinctive singing style and her stance on social and political issues.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/12/16/healey-education-secretary-cabinet-appointment-patrick-tutwiler

Former Lynn Schools superintendent named as next secretary of education