Category: Racial Justice

Bio

Amadi Azikiwe, violist, violinist and conductor, has been heard in recital in major cities throughout the United States, such as New York, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Houston, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., including an appearance at the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Azikiwe has also been a guest of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at the Alice Tully Hall in New York, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. He has appeared in recital at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, the “Discovery” recital series in La Jolla, the International Viola Congress, and at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since then, he has performed throughout Israel, Canada, South America, Central America, Switzerland, India, Japan, Nigeria, Hong Kong, and throughout the Caribbean.

https://harlemchamberplayers.org/amadi-azikiwe

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

Armenta Adams (Hummings) Dumisani (born 1936) is an American concert pianist and music educator who since 1960 has performed in the United States and, thanks to an international relations award from the U.S. State Department, in 27 other countries. In 1993, she founded the Gateways Music Festival which promotes the achievements of young African-American classical musicians. A former associate professor of music at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, in 1994 she was appointed Eastman’s Distinguished Community Mentor.^[1][2][3]

https://www.gatewaysmusicfestival.org/new-page-1miss-armentas-story-in-her-own-words

Miss Armenta’s story in her own words

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/04/834546599/quincy-jones-pop-mastermind-thriller-producer-dies

Quincy Jones, whose decorated music career ran from the early 1950s through the best-known works of Michael Jackson and beyond, died Sunday. He was 91.

https://travelnoire.com/black-excellence-meet-the-identical-twin-brothers-who-are-pilots-on-alaska-airlines

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

Kelis Rogers (/kəˈliːs/;^[2] born August 21, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and chef.^[3] She attended New York‘s Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts,^[4] where she played saxophone and was selected for the Girls Choir of Harlem.^[5] Upon graduation, Rogers landed a role as a backing vocalist for the hip hop group Gravediggaz. She then began working with music producers Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo—collectively known as the Neptunes—who led her to sign with Virgin Records in 1998.^[6][7]

https://thephoenixnewspaper.com/meet-the-imafidons-the-smartest-family-in-the-uk

The Imafidon family was recently named the smartest family in Britain.

Hailing from Nigeria, husband, Dr. Chris Imafidon and wife Ann, are parents to twelve-year-old twins Peter and Paula, who made history as the youngest children in ever, in the United Kingdom, to attend high school – before then also setting world records by passing A/AS-level math papers.

Sister, Anne-Marie Imafidon, graduated from high school at the age of 10, before gaining her Master’s Degree from Oxford University, at the age of 17 – becoming the youngest person to pass the A-level computing exam. And it doesn’t stop there.

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/10/31/nx-s1-5172517/caregiver-caregiving-isolation-burnout-resources

Dawn Shedrick is matter-of-fact about the heartbreaks of caregiving. She is clear and calm when she describes its hardships and grief. She has looked after her mother, who has multiple sclerosis, for more than 30 years. She has been through a lot, and she keeps going.