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

Michele Val Jean (b. 1950s) is an American television writer on the CBS Daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful.

https://journalism.columbia.edu/faculty/jelani-cobb

Jelani Cobb joined the Journalism School faculty in 2016 and became Dean in 2022. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2015. He received a Peabody Award for his 2020 PBS Frontline film Whose Vote Counts? and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary in 2018. He has also been a political analyst for MSNBC since 2019.

https://kevinashley.substack.com/p/gus-and-emma-thompson-1886-1958

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-chinese-family-coronado-california-rcna140717

Black couple rented to a Chinese American family when nobody would. Now, they’re donating $5M to Black community. 

The Dongs are selling the home their family rented and eventually bought from Gus Thompson, a former slave, and his wife, Emma. The Dongs will donate the proceeds to Black students.

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/janice-burgess-dead-the-backyardigans-1235930886/

Janice Burgess, creator of Nickelodeon’s “The Backyardigans,” died on Saturday in hospice care in Manhattan, according to The New York Times. She was 72.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francia_M%C3%A1rquez

Francia Elena Márquez Mina (born 1 December 1981)^[5] is a Colombian human-rights and environmental activist and lawyer, who is the 13th and current Vice President of Colombia.

https://www.bet.com/article/nc6fxt/meet-tanner-adell-the-new-queen-of-glam-country

Meet Tanner Adell, The New Queen of Glam Country

Blending Hollywood’s high fashion with rodeo roots, Adell talks about redefining country music, while her hit “Buckle Bunny” champions women and challenges stereotypes.

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

Linda Martell (born Thelma Bynem; June 4, 1941) is an American singer. She became the first commercially successful black female artist in the country music field and the first to play the Grand Ole Opry. As one of the first African-American country performers, Martell helped influence the careers of future Nashville artists of color.