Communities That Care Coalition
Promoting health, well-being, and equity among young people in Franklin County and the North Quabbin
https://newplayexchange.org/users/28248/aaron-mays
Playwright and director Aaron Mays is an award-winning theatre artist based in Chicago. His latest play BLACK SANTA was one of four finalists to receive its world premiere at the 2024 Obsidian Theatre Festival. The play’s Southeast premiere took place at Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center and City Theatre in December 2024.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophelia_DeVore
Ophelia DeVore (August 12, 1921 – February 28, 2014) was an American businesswoman, publisher, and model.[1] She was the first model of African-American descent in the United States. In 1946, she helped establish the Grace Del Marco Agency, one of the first modeling agencies in America.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Clyburn
James Enos Clyburn (born July 21, 1940) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for South Carolina’s 6th congressional district. First elected in 1992, Clyburn is serving his 17th term, representing a congressional district that includes most of the majority-black precincts in and around Columbia and Charleston, as well as most of the majority-black areas outside Beaufort and nearly all of South Carolina’s share of the Black Belt. Since Joe Cunningham‘s departure in 2021, Clyburn has been the only Democrat in South Carolina’s congressional delegation as well as the dean of the state’s delegation since 2011 after fellow Democrat John Spratt lost re-election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Johnson-Odim
Cheryl Johnson-Odim is an American historian. She worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Northwestern University and Loyola University Chicago. She became dean at Columbia College Chicago and in 2007 was made provost of Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/cadc_caam_oralhistories/37
Dr. Cheryl Johnson-Odim is an activist and educator. She was raised in New York City, earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Youngstown State University, and a PhD in history from Northwestern University. She served as assistant director of the African Studies program at Northwestern, became the first woman and first African American to chair the history department at Loyola University Chicago, and was the first dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Columbia College Chicago. She went on to serve as Provost at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois, has since retired, and continues her activism in several causes.
Topics include the anti-apartheid movement, Chicago politics, activism since 2010, Critical Race Theory, the 1619 Project, and the 2016 presidential election.
https://www.artic.edu/authors/63/antawan-i-byrd
Antawan I. Byrd is associate curator, Photography and Media, at the Art Institute of Chicago. Since joining the museum in 2017, he has contributed to the exhibition Volta Photo: Starring Sanlé Sory and the People of Bobo-Dioulasso in the Small but Musically Mighty Country of Burkina Faso (2018) and curated and co-edited the catalogue for The People Shall Govern! Medu Art Ensemble and the Anti-Apartheid Poster (2019) with Felicia Mings. He recently curated Mimi Cherono Ng’ok: Closer to the Earth, Closer to My Own Body, the first solo presentation in the United States of the Kenyan-born photographer.
https://arthistory.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/antawan-byrd.html
Antawan I. Byrd is an assistant professor of art history and a faculty affiliate of Northwestern’s Program of African Studies. As an art historian, Byrd’s research is grounded in Pan-Africanism, a long-standing political and cultural project that imagines global solidarities among peoples of African descent while confronting the enduring legacies of slavery and colonialism. His work asks what it would mean to write art history with these sociopolitical commitments in view, tracing how such aspirations, whether unified or fractured, have shaped artistic and everyday cultural practices across Africa and the African diaspora. Within this framework, he focuses on modern and contemporary art of the long twentieth century, with particular attention to the intersections of sound, visual culture, and politics.
https://www.chicagomahogany.com/our-historian
Chicago historian Dilla, as he is affectionately known, is an Emmy Award-winning modern historian, cultural worker, and brand ambassador. Dilla has become a Chicago influencer, activist and social media sensation. What began by going viral on TikTok has led into perspective shifting, publicly accessible history lessons for all. Dilla’s history videos on everything Chicago have been viewed over 40 million times, and he has amassed a following of 300K followers across all social media platforms. Dilla has been featured on all manner of Chicago media and has also appeared nationally on both The Today Show and The Kelly Clarkson Show. Dilla is a proud lifelong resident of Chicago’s South Side.
He lives by the saying that everything dope about America comes from Chicago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shermann_Thomas
Shermann “Dilla” Thomas is an American TikToker and self-taught historian who first became known for leading historic walking tours of Chicago.[1][2][3]
He first became interested in history from his father, a former Chicago police officer who refused to use expressways as a protest against the impact their construction had on Black communities.[4]
https://www.family-institute.org/therapists-locations/staff/anthony-chambers
Anthony Chambers, Ph.D., ABPP, is the chief academic officer and a Board Certified Couple and Family Psychologist on staff at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. Dr. Chambers is also the director of Northwestern University’s Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies, in addition to his clinical professorship in the Department of Psychology. He is the former director of both the Couple Therapy Program and the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at The Family Institute, and is one of the few psychologists nationwide to be board certified in treating couples (ABPP). Dr. Chambers is also the former president of the American Psychological Association’s Society for Couple and Family Psychology, which is the premiere national organization for couple and family psychologists.
https://magazine.northwestern.edu/alumni/naa-new-leader-executive-director-lindsay-vahl-dean
For Lindsay Vahl Dean, the opportunity to shape how Northwestern interacts with its global alumni community was too good to pass up.
“I am thrilled by the chance to create spaces where alumni can deepen their experiences with the University and one another,” says Vahl Dean, who became assistant vice president of alumni engagement and executive director of the Northwestern Alumni Association (NAA) in July after a national search.
https://www.thewootenbrothers.com/brothers
For over five decades the Wooten Brothers have been recognized as some of the most innovative musicians in existence and are collectively known as one of the most talented and dynamic band of brothers the world has ever known. A self-contained unit, the band consist of (from oldest to youngest) Regi on guitar/vocals; Roy on drums/vocals; Joseph on keyboards/vocals; and Victor on bass/vocals. The Wooten Brothers continue to honor their middle brother, Rudy, whose untimely passing in 2010 left the band without their one-man horn section. Since he was a child, Rudy played two saxophones at once, duplicating lines from popular horn bands such as Earth Wind and Fire, Chicago, Tower of Power, Blood Sweat and Tears, and others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Whatley
Booker T. Whatley (November 5, 1915 in Calhoun County, Alabama – September 3, 2005 in Montgomery, Alabama) was an agriculture professor at Tuskegee University, Alabama, and a pioneer of sustainable agriculture in the post-World War II era. He also aimed to “generate an agrarian black middle class”.[1]