Tag: Black Excellence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Abdul-Mateen_II

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (/ˈjɑːjɑː/;^[1] born July 15, 1986^[2]) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Black Manta in the superhero films Aquaman (2018) and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023), Bobby Seale in the Netflix historical legal drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020), and Morpheus / Agent Smith in The Matrix Resurrections (2021). For his portrayal of Cal Abar / Doctor Manhattan in the HBO limited series Watchmen (2019), he won a Primetime Emmy Award. He also starred in episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale (2018) and Black Mirror (2019).

He made his Broadway debut in the Suzan-Lori Parks play Topdog/Underdog for which he received a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play nomination. He has played Simon Williams / Wonder Man in media set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starring in the Disney+ series Wonder Man (2026), for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.

https://www.marquee.digital/role/dez-bing

Dezi is an actress, writer, voice over artist, and keynote speaker whose recent work includes starring in Shatara Michelle Ford’s sophomore film “Dreams in Nightmares,” Wig Out, written by Academy Award™ Winner for Best Picture: Tarell Alvin McCraney, and working with Jackbox Games to voice ‘the host’ of one of their newest videos games: Roomerang. Dezi was recently published in “The Root Magazine,” a digital news publication with over half a million followers on Instagram. And she also completed a year long playwriting fellowship at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing arts where she wrote and workshopped her first play, “The Peculiar Awakening of Riley Parker.” So honored to have worked on this wonderful project!

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

Nyesha Joyce Arrington (born 1981) is an American chef, television personality, and restaurateur. She was a contestant on Top Chef: Texas season 9; and has been on various television shows, including as a mentor and judge on Fox’s Next Level Chef.^[1][2] Arrington formerly was a chef and partner at restaurants Leona, and Native in Southern California. She is nicknamed “The Ninja”.^[3]

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

Lauryn Williams (born September 11, 1983) is an American sprinter and bobsledder.^[1] She was the gold medalist in the 100 meter dash at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics and won silver medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 2007 World Championships, and 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships. She won a silver medal in the two-woman bobsleigh at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

A World Junior Champion in 2002, she went on to win the 100 m at the 2003 Pan American Games and claimed the NCAA title over the distance for the University of Miami the following year. She has also featured as part of the American 4 × 100 meter relay team, winning gold medals at the 2005 and 2007 World Championships and at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Williams is one of six athletes to have won a medal in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games, as well as the first American woman to do so.^[2][3]

In 2013, Williams became an intern at Briaud Financial Advisors.^[10] She later became a certified financial planner, passing the exam in 2017.^[11]

https://www.rootedpathways.llc/illuminator

Kohenet Shoshana A Brown, LMSW

Gratitude

I give gratitude and reverence to my ancestors who crossed the Atlantic… those of circumstance from Eastern Europe, and those by force through the shores of Senegal. I honor my ancestors who picked strawberries and my grandmother Louise who refused and danced her way north to land me here on this colonized Lenape land. To my grandfather Rudy who envisioned freedom by fighting to protect wildlife, worker’s rights, and feeding the hungry. To my dad who is always with me and reminds me to enjoy life and stand for justice.

https://www.nfllp.com/attorney-profiles/randolph-m-mclaughlin

Professor Randolph M. McLaughlin, a graduate of Columbia College and Harvard Law School, became Of Counsel to Newman Ferrara LLP in September 2011. Professor McLaughlin is a faculty member at Pace University School of Law, where he teaches courses focusing on civil rights, litigation, labor law, voting rights, civil procedure, and New York City practice. Before joining Pace’s law faculty in 1988, Professor McLaughlin was associated with Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, where he specialized in civil litigation and labor law. In 1978, he began his legal career at the Center for Constitutional Rights, a civil-rights/civil-liberties legal organization in New York City City. For eight years he worked side by side with the renowned civil-rights attorney William Kunstler. He was responsible for the management and coordination of important cases at both the trial and appellate levels, and pioneered the development of legal strategies to redress racially-motivated violence. In 1982, he won an award of $535,000 for five black women who had been attacked by members of the Chattanooga Ku Klux Klan.

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/magazine/justin-dunnavant-african-cultural-archaeology-maroon-caribbean-slavery

Poisons and booby traps, underwater roads and tricky disguises — these are the survival tactics perfected by the Maroon, runaway slave communities that fanned out across the Caribbean in the 18th century. Their stories have been largely untold.

That’s about to change.

The word “maroon” is derived from the Spanish for “wild.” The Maroons were fugitives, a small fraction of the 12 million men, women and children estimated to have been kidnapped in Africa and sold into American slavery. Their very existence was systemically erased by colonialists, first to discourage others and later out of shame, says Justin Dunnavant, an assistant professor of anthropology at the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and a scholar on slave ships.

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/11/nx-s1-5678523/maternity-desert-birth-midwife-black-moms-babies

Nadia Gramby cherishes quiet moments with her baby girl River Emmanuel, who’s starting to talk. They exchange snuggles and baby coos each morning.

“Did you sleep well last night?” Gramby asks her little girl, who has dark curls and a big smile.

Besides being a mother of two and a wife, Gramby spends her days and many nights as a midwife caring for other moms and babies across Alabama where she lives and practices.

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

Jacqueline Amanda Woodson (born February 12, 1963) is an American writer of books for children and young adolescents. She is best known for Miracle’s Boys, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. After serving as the Young People’s Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017,^[1] she was named the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, by the Library of Congress, for 2018 to 2019. Her novel Another Brooklyn was shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction.^[2] She accepted the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2018^[3] and the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2020.^[4] She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2020.^[5]

https://www.mydnaturals.com/about-3

Welcome to Mydnaturals, where the health of your hair and skin is nurtured by the power of nature, ethically sourced and crafted with care. ​My journey into the world of natural care products began over a decade ago, fueled by a personal passion for creating my own formulations. For years, I’ve experienced firsthand the incredible benefits of using nature’s bounty. Recent unsettling news about harmful chemicals found in mainstream products ignited a deeper purpose:

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