Sidney Poitier, KBE is a Bahamian-American actor and film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor, the first black actor to win that award, and was nominated a second time. Continue reading Profile: Sidney Poitier(1927-)
Katherine Johnson, was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. Continue reading Profile: Katherine G. Johnson(1918-2020)
Harry Belafonte is a Jamaican-American singer, songwriter, activist, and actor. One of the most successful Jamaican-American pop stars in history, he was dubbed the “King of Calypso” for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s. Continue reading Profile: Harry Belafonte (1927-)
Mara Brock Akil is an American screenwriter and television producer. She created UPN comedy series Girlfriends and its spin-off The Game. She later created the first drama series for BET Being Mary Jane. In 2018, she produced Black Lightning for The CW and created Love Is for Oprah Winfrey Network. Continue reading Profile: Mara Brock Akil (1970-)
