Tag: Black Excellence

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

Diahann Carroll (/daɪˈæn/ dy-AN; born Carol Diann Johnson; July 17, 1935 – October 4, 2019) was an American actress, singer, model, and activist. Carroll was the recipient of numerous nominations and awards for her stage and screen performances, including a Tony Award in 1962, Golden Globe Award in 1968, and five Emmy Award nominations.

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

Victor Okoh Boniface (born 23 December 2000) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen and the Nigeria national team. Boniface is renowned for his pace, strength, dribbling ability, finishing and work ethic.^[2][3][4][5]

https://alaysiablackhackett.com

As an expert with 20 years of executive-level diversity leadership in public, private, and academic sectors, Dr. Lacy’s expertise focuses on fostering inclusive and equitable environments, with a drive for social and economic development. Dr. Lacy has a track record of building diverse and equitable infrastructures in organizations of all sizes, where her proficiency in change management practices helps her coordinate strategic initiatives and drive organizational growth. Dr. Lacy has always been very active within her community, working with organizations to develop and offer policies that meet the needs of both marginalized constituents and community leaders and has held numerous board positions. Alaysia is the CEO of ABH Solutions, LLC, a consultant firm focusing on sustainable change through organizational development and individual, economic, and global strategies.

In the summer of 2022, Alaysia was appointed by President Joe Biden as the inaugural Chief Diversity and Equity Officer for the Secretary of Labor.

https://conferences.shrm.org/presenter/alaysia-hackett?conf=29582

Alaysia Black Hackett is the Chief Diversity and Equity Officer in the Office of the Secretary at the United States Department of Labor. Appointed in the summer of 2022, she leads and provides strategic insight for the Department’s internal and external initiatives for interagency diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) programs. She serves as the principal advisor and subject matter expert on promoting DEIA into systems that guide the labor market, diversifying the workforce, dismantling historically exclusive systems that perpetuate discrimination in the workplace and embedding equity in the labor field so that all people may feel seen, heard and included.

https://magazine.northwestern.edu/innovation/invention-expandable-bike-helmet-gass-iyacu-emma-jackson

A More Inclusive Bike Helmet

Gass Iyacu ’24 rode a scooter across Northwestern’s Evanston campus to get to class every day. Emma Jackson ’24 rode her bike. But neither regularly wore a helmet. Why?  

“They just don’t fit!” says Iyacu, who wears his hair in various styles, such as an Afro or braids. Jackson has the same problem. Helmets typically frizz her hair and disrupt her natural curls.  

Determined to find a solution, the two manufacturing and design engineering majors teamed up with classmates Pratham Bansal ’24, Alicia Cabrera ’24 and Kevin Kaspar ’24 to create the CALYX helmet system, an expandable helmet and accessory that accommodates thick, curly and voluminous hair while prioritizing safety and proper ventilation.

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.