Category: Racial Justice

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

Giannis Sina Ugo Antetokounmpo^[a] (né Adetokunbo;^[b] born December 6, 1994) is a Greek and Nigerian professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). His size, speed, strength, and country of origin have earned him the nickname “Greek Freak“. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest power forwards of all time as well as one of the greatest players of all time.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]}

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

Hazel Dorothy Scott (June 11, 1920 – October 2, 1981) was a Trinidadian jazz and classical pianist and singer. She was an outspoken critic of racial discrimination and segregation. She used her influence to improve the representation of Black Americans in film.^[1]

https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/ena-hartman-7784

Ena Hartman is an unsung trailblazer of Hollywood whose smaller roles in 1960s media productions helped create a path for African Americans in film and television. Black actresses working in the 1970s benefited from the trail Hartman helped blaze.

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

RaMell Ross is an American filmmaker, photographer, academic, and writer best known for his 2018 documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening and the 2024 film adaptation of the novel The Nickel Boys (2019), the latter of which he directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Joslyn Barnes, for which he won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director.^[1][2][3]

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/11/nx-s1-5217676/nickel-boys-movie-review

‘Nickel Boys’ establishes a new way of seeing Black characters on screen

https://www.rhyuhn.com/about

Lauded by NPR as a “sartorially resplendent 18-year-old from Philadelphia [who] lives a double life as both an extraordinary pianist and a composer”, Rhyuhn Phallon Green (b.2006) began his musical studies at the age of 2. He is a student of Dean and Director David Ludwig at the Juilliard School where he is a proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship.

https://www.blackpast.org/author/broussardalbert

Albert S. Broussard is professor of History at Texas A&M University, where he has taught since 1985. Professor Broussard has published six books, Expectations of Equality: A History of Black Westerners (2012), Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900-1954 (1993), African American Odyssey: The Stewarts, 1853-1963 (1998), American History: The Early Years to 1877, and The American Republic Since 1877, and The American Vision (co-authored with James McPherson, Alan Brinkley, Joyce Appleby, and Donald Ritchie).

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/15/g-s1-42698/nancy-leftenant-colon-military-army-tuskegee-obituary

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps when it was desegregated after World War II and the sister of one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen pilots, died Jan. 8 in Amityville, N.Y. She was 104.

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

Machel Montano (born 24 November 1974)^[2] is a Trinidadian soca recording artist and record producer. Known for his high energy, fast-paced, and often unpredictable on-stage performances, he is one of the genre’s most popular artists.^[3][4]

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/13/g-s1-41268/machel-montano-tiny-desk-concert

The first law of soca music according to Machel Montano is: “it’s dancing time all the time.” And in his Tiny Desk Concert, the “King of Soca” provides irrefutable evidence to support that statement.

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

Jaye Davidson (born Alfred Amey; 21 March 1968) is an English model, fashion stylist, and retired actor. He made his acting debut as Dil in the thriller film The Crying Game (1992),^[1][3] for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Following his breakthrough, he portrayed the villainous Ra in the commercially successful science fiction film Stargate (1994). Davidson retired from acting afterwards, disliking the fame that the roles brought him.