Tag: Black Excellence

https://apha.org/about-apha/executive-board-and-staff/apha-staff/georges-c-benjamin-md

Georges C. Benjamin, MD is known as one of the nation’s most influential physician leaders because he speaks passionately and eloquently about the health issues having the most impact on our nation today. From his firsthand experience as a physician, he knows what happens when preventive care is not available and when the healthy choice is not the easy choice. As executive director of APHA since 2002, he is leading the Association’s push to make America the healthiest nation.

https://www.uti.edu/blog/graduate-stories/mmi-grad-harley-davidson-tech

At just 25, recent MMI Orlando graduate Paris McGowan didn’t plan on making history — it just sort of happened! She has become the first Black female Harley-Davidson® technician in Missouri.

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/03/nx-s1-5213686/mickalene-thomas-artist

Mickalene Thomas makes art that ‘gives Black women their flowers’

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/04/nx-s1-5191477/jon-batiste-lara-downs-interview

Jon Batiste traces the blues back to Beethoven and beyond

Tony D. Hansberry, II was a 9th grader at Carnell Cookman School of Medical Arts in Jacksonville, Florida when he invented a project that allows him to “reduce the time it takes to perform hysterectomies.”

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/26/698086054/zaytoven-tiny-desk-concert

The Lord works in mysterious ways. It might sound cliché, but there’s really no better way to describe the circumstances that led to prolific producer Zaytoven’s impromptu Tiny Desk.

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

Xavier Lamar Dotson (born January 12, 1980), known professionally as Zaytoven, is an American record producer from Atlanta, Georgia.^{[1][2][3][non-primary source needed]} He has released collaborative projects with artists including Gucci Mane, Usher, Future, Young Dolph, Migos, Lecrae, Lil Yachty, Chief Keef, Young Scooter, B.o.B, Boosie Badazz, Waka Flocka Flame, 21 Savage, Deitrick Haddon and La Fève.^[4]

https://jadefadojutimi.com/about

Jadé Fadojutimi is a composer of colour, space and environments. Movement informs her artistic practice, enabling her paintings to be conducted through the orchestrating of her studio space.