Kathleen Neal Cleaver
Black Panther Party Communications Secretary and the first woman in the Party’s leadership group who later became a university porfessor and also worked as a law clerk in the U.S. Court of Appeals
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Thoko Ntshinga
For South African actress Thoko Ntshinga, her art and her community are inseparable.
Ericka Huggins
Black Panther, university lecturer and poet
Toni Braxton
Rhythm-and-blues artist Toni Braxton launched her recording career with Atlanta’s LaFace Records label in the early 1990s and has gone on to win numerous Grammy Awards and American Music Awards. Her best-known songs include “Breathe Again” (1993), “Un-Break My Heart” (1996), “You’re Makin’ Me High” (1996), and “He Wasn’t Man Enough” (2000).
Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones is a writer whose stories and literary imagination center on Georgia and its capital city.
Carrie Steele Logan
Carrie Steele Logan founded the Carrie Steele Orphan Home in Atlanta, recognized as the oldest predominantly Black orphanage in Georgia and possibly the oldest organization of its type in the country.
Amanda America Dickson
Amanda America Dickson, the daughter of an enslaved woman and her enslaver, became one of the wealthiest Black women in nineteenth-century America.
Dr Flemmie Pansy Kittrell
Globetrotting African-American nutritionist Flemmie P. Kittrell revolutionized early childhood education and illuminated ‘hidden hunger’
bell hooks
As a leading Black intellectual, hooks pushed the feminist movement beyond the preserve of the white and middle-class, encouraging Black and working class perspectives on gender inequality.
Dorothy Masuku
South African singer, composer and a hero of the struggle