Black Excellence: Ruleo Camacho
https://antigualionfish.com/lionfish-event-team/ruleo-camacho/
Marine Ecologist: Ruleo has a BSc in Environmental Biology from Jamaica, and a double MSc in Marine Biology and Marine Policy from the University of Maine, and is currently the Marine Ecologist at the National Park Association.
Black Excellence: Sister Judges
https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a41589469/we-call-ourselves-sister-judges/
On a smothering hot summer day in 2018, 19 Texas women—all of them Black, all of them pillars in the legal community—got in formation for a photoshoot. Sharing knowing nods and confident smiles, they felt another very powerful figure in the room: Beyoncé was booming in the background.
Black Excellence: Audrey Lavinia Smaltz
https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/audrey-lavinia-smaltz-40
Fashion show manager Audrey Lavinia Smaltz was born on June 2, 1937 in New York City. Growing up in the Harlem River Houses with neighbors such as Dr. Alvin Poussaint, Bob Moses and David Scott, Smaltz attended P.S. 46 and the Harriet Beecher Stowe Girls Junior High School.
Black Excellence: Taraji P. Henson
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/18/1219987708/the-color-purple-taraji-p-henson
Taraji P. Henson says she’s passing the ‘Color Purple’ baton to a new generation
Black Excellence: Corinne Bailey Rae and Theaster Gates
How Corinne Bailey Rae and Theaster Gates are preserving Black culture
Black Excellence: Jason Fuller
https://wtop.com/author/jason-fuller/
Jason Fuller is a multifaceted storyteller from Detroit. He obtained his B.A. in communications and double majored in Africana Studies at the University of New Mexico. After graduation, Jason had a one-year fellowship experience rooted primarily in radio journalism and caught the journo bug!
Black Excellence: Dr. Zita Magloire
Can family doctors deliver rural America from its maternal health crisis?
Black Excellence: Roseline Chukwu Chiuwa, Africana Bowl/Africana Villa in Springfield, MA
A culinary haven that embraces the soulful essence of Africa.
312 Locust Street, Springfield, MA 01108
413-707-0607
Black Excellence: Madam C.J. Walker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madam_C._J._Walker
Madam C. J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove; December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919) was an African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records.[1] Multiple sources mention that although other women (like Mary Ellen Pleasant) might have been the first, their wealth is not as well-documented.[1][2][3]