Black Excellence: Art X
Africa’s flourishing art scene is a smash hit at Art X
Black Excellence: Uzoamaka Emeka Nzelibe
https://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/profiles/uzoamakanzelibe/
Uzoamaka Emeka Nzelibe is a Clinical Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. She directs the Seigle Immigration Clinic for Immigrant Youth and Families, which is part of the Bluhm Legal Clinic’s Children and Family Justice Center.
Black Excellence: Otherie Love
https://www.sesp.northwestern.edu/news-center/inquiry/2011-fall/alumni-profile.html
In 1941 when Otherie Love did her student teaching as a Northwestern University education major, she became the first African American student teacher in the Evanston schools. She recalls that at the school where she taught all the children were black, but all the teachers were white.
Black Excellence: Beverly Watts-Davis
Chief Officer for Program Support and Senior Vice President for Texas
WestCare Foundation/Westcare Texas
San Antonio, Texas
Black Excellence: LaParis Phillips
https://nowthisnews.com/news/brooklyn-blooms-floral-designer
With Brooklyn Blooms, LaParis Phillips is infusing her own sense of style — plus the ‘funky’ and ‘spicy’ vibe of Brooklyn — into every bouquet.
Black Excellence: Felicia W Shaw
https://www.sandiegoracc.org/committee
Executive Director, San Diego Regional Arts and Culture Coalition
A seasoned professional in the field of nonprofit arts management, Felicia’s career has spanned more than 30 years and has included an executive leadership position with the Regional Arts Commission of St Louis, and director positions with the San Diego Foundation and City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture.
Black Excellence: Kevin Hart
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/15/1212862110/kevin-hart-mark-twain-prize
Kevin Hart will receive the Mark Twain Prize — humor’s highest honor
Black Excellence: Dr. Anita Thomas
https://www.northcentralcollege.edu/presidential-search/meet-the-president
Meet Dr. Anita Thomas, 11th president of North Central College