Category: Black Excellence

https://www.legacylandmanagement.org/about

Alexis Harvey is a Registered Professional Forester in Mississippi and Alabama, as well as a Wildlife Biologist.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/03/01/pottery-exhibit-at-the-mfa-spins-a-tale-of-artistry-despite-the-odds

Pottery exhibit at the MFA spins a tale of artistry despite the odds

https://www.terrymcmillan.com/

Terry McMillan is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, A Day Late and a Dollar Short, The Interruption of Everything, I Almost Forgot About You, and the editor of Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction. Four of Ms. McMillan’s novels have been made into movies: Waiting to Exhale (Twentieth Century Fox, 1995); How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Twentieth Century Fox, 1998); Disappearing Acts (HBO Pictures, 1999); and A Day Late and a Dollar Short (Lifetime, 2014). She lives in California.

https://oricejenkins.com/

Orice Jenkins is a recording artist, performer, educator, and genealogy researcher from Hartford, Connecticut. His music has been featured in JazzTimes magazine and charted at #11 on the iTunes Jazz chart. Jenkins has performed extensively across all genres, including Hip-Hop, R&B, Jazz, Gospel, and Classical music. He serves as the Executive Director of Música Franklin, an afterschool music program for youth in Franklin County, Massachusetts.

https://www.weku.org/kentucky-arts-culture/2023-06-14/kentuckys-13-year-old-yodeling-cowgirl-gains-national-attention

Kentucky’s 13-year-old yodeling cowgirl gains national attention

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

Mary Edmonia Lewis, also known as “Wildfire” (c. July 4, 1844 – September 17, 1907), was an American sculptor.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/14/1182155304/fort-polk-renamed-william-henry-johnson-black-wwi-hero

The U.S. Army renames a base in honor of Sgt. William Henry Johnson, a Black WWI hero

https://ciscoswank.bandcamp.com/

Cisco Swank is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and vocalist from Brooklyn, NY

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/26/harvard-law-school-rehan-staton-graduates

Former Maryland trash hauler graduates from Harvard Law School