Category: Black Excellence

https://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/

Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community, and Culture

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/23/1142266412/2022-was-a-good-year-for-nikki-grimes-who-just-published-her-103rd-book

2022 was a good year for Nikki Grimes, who just published her 103rd book

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/22/1145036775/virginia-first-black-woman-congress-expected-jennifer-mcclellan

Jennifer McClellan is poised to become Virginia’s first Black woman in Congress

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/21/1143138448/brought-to-the-brink-by-the-pandemic-a-mississippi-clinic-is-rebounding-strong

Brought ‘to the brink’ by the pandemic, a Mississippi clinic is rebounding strong

https://www.theblackivists.com/

A collective of trained Black archivists who prioritize Black cultural heritage preservation and memory work

https://benniethompson.house.gov/

https://benniethompson.house.gov/about

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

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/11/1142118390/the-pioneering-black-feminist-dorothy-pitman-hughes-has-died-at-aged-84

https://kehindewiley.com/

Los Angeles native and New York based visual artist, Kehinde Wiley has firmly situated himself within art history’s portrait painting tradition. As a contemporary descendent of a long line of portraitists, including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Titian, Ingres, among others, Wiley, engages the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, majestic and the sublime in his representation of urban, black and brown men found throughout the world.

https://www.wgbh.org/news/education/2022/12/15/harvard-announces-claudine-gay-will-be-its-next-president

Harvard announces Claudine Gay will be its next president

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/14/1142482597/julius-rodriguez-a-young-pianist-fusing-all-the-music-from-inside-out

Julius Rodriguez, a young pianist fusing (all) the music from inside-out