Profiles Index

Activists

Fannie Lou Hamer
Antone Pagán
Dale Ricardo Shields
Pura Fé
Fela Kuti
The Little Rock Nine
The Scottsboro Boys
Benjamin Banneker
Thurgood Marshall: Revolutionizing the Concept of Precedence in the Supreme Court
DUCHESS HARRIS, PhD, JD

Actors

Antone Pagán
Dale Ricardo Shields
Reyno
Johnny Nash
Dooley Wilson
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
EUGENE LEE
Niles Fitch
SANDRA REAVES-PHILLIPS
ALDE LEWIS

Actresses

Lillias White
Adelle Gautier
Jonelle Allen
Debra Byrd
SANDRA REAVES-PHILLIPS
Cicely Louise Tyson
Carol Sutton
The Mammy Archetype‏: A Black Maiden Syndrome
Hattie McDaniel  (Actress) –  The Petition
Venida Evans

Artists

Vinnie Bagwell
Stephen Wiltshire – Artist
Chapman Roberts
Shirley Taylor
Kathy A. Perkins
Faith Ringgold: The Power of Silence by Kailee Elizabeth Cross
Martin Espada – Poet & Professor
Frank Espada –  Documentary Photographer and Civil Rights Activist
Arthur Theodore Wilson – Actor, Playwright, Poet, Educator
William Edmondson – Artist

Authors

DUCHESS HARRIS, PhD, JD
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry
Robert Fleming
Toni King

Choreographers

FRED BENJAMIN
Louis Johnson
ALDE LEWIS
ABDEL SALAAM
SLIM MELLO
Carla Earle

Dancers

FRED BENJAMIN
Louis Johnson
ALDE LEWIS
ABDEL SALAAM
SLIM MELLO
Carla Earle
Stanley Wayne Mathis
Dyane Harvey-Salaam
Dr. Nefretete Rasheed

Directors

Antone Pagán
Dale Ricardo Shields
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
EUGENE LEE
Jonelle Allen
Louis Johnson
ALDE LEWIS
ABDEL SALAAM
Robert Hooks
Samuel Légitimus

Educators

Dale Ricardo Shields
Carol Sutton
DUCHESS HARRIS, PhD, JD
STAN BROWN
John Hope Franklin
Yvonne Carter Williams
B’nard Lewis
VICTOR LOVE
Vinnette Carroll
Shirley Taylor

Facts & Trivia

The Secret Meeting that Changed Rap Music and Destroyed a Generation
Facts & Trivia

Historian

Dale Ricardo Shields
Emmett Louis Till
The Little Rock Nine
The Scottsboro Boys
The Shields Brothers Gospel Singers
Benjamin Banneker
Thurgood Marshall: Revolutionizing the Concept of Precedence in the Supreme Court
Louis Johnson
DUCHESS HARRIS, PhD, JD

Historical

Dale Ricardo Shields
Fannie Lou Hamer
Antone Pagán
Reyno
Pura Fé
Emmett Louis Till
Lillias White
Johnny Nash
Fela Kuti

Model

Dale Ricardo Shields
Fannie Lou Hamer
Antone Pagán
Reyno
Pura Fé
Emmett Louis Till
Lillias White
Johnny Nash
Fela Kuti

Musician

Pura Fé
Johnny Nash
Fela Kuti
The Shields Brothers Gospel Singers
Lady Peachena
Chapman Roberts
Zenobia
Valerie Capers

Photographer

Frank Espada –  Documentary Photographer and Civil Rights Activist

Pilot

Dorothy Layne McIntyre – Pilot

Playwright

EUGENE LEE
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry
Terry Burrell
Arthur Theodore Wilson – Actor, Playwright, Poet, Educator

Poet

Adelle Gautier
Melony McGant
Dr. Nefretete Rasheed
Toni King
Louis Reyes Rivera
Quincy Troupe
Martin Espada – Poet & Professor
Arthur Theodore Wilson – Actor, Playwright, Poet, Educator