Dee Dee Bridgewater is a daring performer of great depth whose singing talents have earned her three Grammy Awards as well as a Tony Award. In addition, her commanding personality made her a natural for hosting the award-winning National Public Radio syndicated radio show JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater from 2001 to 2014.
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
Black Panther, university lecturer and poet
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 is a writer whose stories and literary imagination center on Georgia and its capital city.
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, the daughter of an enslaved woman and her enslaver, became one of the wealthiest Black women in nineteenth-century America.
Globetrotting African-American nutritionist Flemmie P. Kittrell revolutionized early childhood education and illuminated ‘hidden hunger’
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.
South African singer, composer and a hero of the struggle