Black Excellence: Nailah Hunter
Los Angeles-based harpist and composer,Nailah Hunter forges her own dark fantasy on ‘Lovegaze’
Black Excellence: Korva Coleman
Korva Coleman, award winning newscaster for NPR, from Phoenix, Arizona is known for writing, producing, and delivering daily national newscasts airing during NPR’s news magazines, All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition.
Black Excellence: Makoy Samuel Yibi
https://www.exemplars.health/stories/how-south-sudan-is-ending-guinea-worm-disease
National Director of South Sudan’s Guinea Worm Eradication Program
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Heroes-in-the-Field-Makoy-Samuel-Yibi
Black Excellence: Nina Mae McKinney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Mae_McKinney
Nina Mae McKinney (June 12, 1912 – May 3, 1967) was an American actress who worked internationally during the 1930s and in the postwar period in theatre, film and television, after beginning her career on Broadway and in Hollywood.
Black Excellence: Titus Kaphar
Titus Kaphar is an artist whose paintings, sculptures, and installations examine the history of representation by transforming its styles and mediums with formal innovations to emphasize the physicality and dimensionality of the canvas and materials themselves.
Black Excellence: Shakerra Monét
Shakerra Monét is a contemporary artist based out of Denver, but a St. Louis native. Completing her studies in fashion design and merchandise, Monét soon realized her true desire to create art in other mediums outside of design.
Black Excellence: Kristen Welker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristen_Welker
Kristen Welker (born July 1, 1976[1]) is an American television journalist working for NBC News. She serves as a White House correspondent based in Washington, D.C.,[2] and served as co-anchor of Weekend Today, the Saturday edition of Today, alongside Peter Alexander from 2020 to 2023. She took over hosting duties for the longest-running program in television history, Meet the Press, on September 17, 2023.[3]
Black Excellence: Arturo Schomburg
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/arturo-schomburg-cookbook
The story that Arturo Schomburg would often tell went something like this: When he was a child in late 19th-century Puerto Rico, his 5th-grade teacher told him that Black people had no history, no heroes, and no great moments. The remark filled him with fury. He’d been born to a Black mother and German father. The incident kindled a lifelong quest to prove the instructor wrong.