Jarena Lee
Jarena Lee was the first known female preacher of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC).
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Joetta Clark Diggs
American track and field champion
Sarah Vaughan
Singer Sarah Vaughan (1924-1990) launched her jazz career at the world-renowned Apollo theatre’s amateur-night contest.
Dr Njema Frazier
Dr. Frazier is a physicist in the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), managing scientific and technical projects established to ensure a safe, secure, and effective nuclear weapons stockpile without nuclear explosive testing.
Nora Ezell
Ezell is a master of embroidery and appliqué, the process of fastening one piece of fabric to a ground fabric with tiny stitches.
Mozell Benson
“Her quilts are the visual equivalent of jazz or blues. She will take a basic pattern and then do variations on it just like a musician will do with a jazz piece.”
Naomi Gedo Diouf
Liberian-American dancer and dance teachers who has contributed to the practice and performance of West African dance, drum, and culture in African diasporic communities for more than four decades.
Natasha Trethewey
U.S. Poet Laureate, 2012-2014
CeCe Mazyck
Military veteran and Paralympian
Mary Jackson
A descendent of the Gullah community of coastal South Carolina, Mary Jackson learned the art of making baskets at the age of four from her mother and grandmother.