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.
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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.
Mary Jane Manigault
Manigault’s baskets have attained widespread recognition because of the sculptural quality of the forms she created and the imaginative use of natural design and color. She often experimented with different forms, but never overdecorated, understanding the value of the plain, unadorned traditional designs.
Master Chief Angela M McShan
A 20-year veteran of the US Coast Guard, the first African-American woman to achieve the enlisted rank of master chief
Mavis Staples
Powerful gospel and rhythm and blues singer
Mildred Gates Hooper
Member of the 6888th, known as the Six Triple Eight, the only African American WAC unit to go overseas during the war.
Loretta Pettway
The community of Boykin, Alabama, known to many as Gee’s Bend, is home to some of the most highly regarded quiltmakers in America, including Mary Lee Bendolph, Lucy Mingo, and Loretta Pettway, three of the chief quilters from the oldest generation of quilters who represent this profound cultural legacy.
Dr Elizabeth Alexander
Poet, scholar, and cultural advocate; a nationally recognized thought leader on race, justice, and American society and president of the Mellon Foundation, the largest funder of the arts, culture, and humanities in the United States.