Maker Directory

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EducationMakers

Marva Collins

Teacher, Education Administrator

MediaMakers

Diann Burns

Television News Anchor

BusinessMakers, MediaMakers

Thomas J. Burrell

Advertising Chief Executive, Entrepreneur

ArtMakers, CivicMakers

Margaret Burroughs

Printmaker, Museum Director

ArtMakers

Peggy Cooper Cafritz

Art Collector

MediaMakers

Bill Campbell

Television Host

ScienceMakers, EducationMakers

George Campbell, Jr.

Physicist, University President

EducationMakers, ArtMakers

Mary Schmidt Campbell

Academic Administrator, Art Curator

ArtMakers

Ruth Beckford

Dancer, Choreographer

ArtMakers

Dawoud Bey

Photographer

EducationMakers, CivicMakers

Timuel Black

Historian, History Professor, Community Activist

MediaMakers

Barbara Boyd

Television Reporter

ArtMakers

Abena Joan P. Brown

Stage Producer

EducationMakers

Bernice Baynes Brown

Academic Administrator

ArtMakers

Oscar Brown, Jr.

Poet, Entertainer, Music Composer, Actor

MediaMakers

Lucky Cordell

Radio Personality

ArtMakers

Allan Crite

Painter

EducationMakers

Dolores E. Cross

College President

MediaMakers

Belva Davis

Television Anchor

ArtMakers

Ossie Davis

Film Director, Screenwriter, Stage Actor, Film Actor, Actor

MediaMakers

Lee Bailey

Radio Personality, Broadcast Executive

ArtMakers

Etta Moten Barnett

Stage Actress

EducationMakers

Na'im Akbar

Psychology Professor

MediaMakers

Hal Jackson

Radio Personality, Sports Promoter

ArtMakers

Wadsworth A. Jarrell, Sr.

Painter

MediaMakers

Vernon Jarrett

Newspaper Columnist, Television Host, Radio Host

MediaMakers

Herb Kent

Radio Personality

EducationMakers, LawMakers

Walter J. Leonard

Academic Administrator, College President, Law Professor

ArtMakers

Samuel Greenlee

Fiction Writer, Poet

MediaMakers

Cecil Hale

Corporate Executive, Radio Personality

EducationMakers

Annie Rosetta "Rose" Hall

Elementary School Teacher

MediaMakers

Hermene Hartman

Magazine Publishing Chief Executive

ArtMakers

Cecil Hayes

Interior Designer

ArtMakers

Vy Higginsen

Stage Producer

ArtMakers

Richard Hunt

Sculptor, Painter

ArtMakers

Kerry James Marshall

Painter

EducationMakers

Lois Martin

Civic Activist, High School Math Teacher, Community Leader

MediaMakers

Barry A. Mayo

Broadcast Entrepreneur, Radio Program Director

EducationMakers

George McKenna, III

High School Principal

ArtMakers

Terry McMillan

Fiction Writer

ArtMakers

David Driskell

Art Professor, Curator, Fine Artist, Visual Arts Collector

ArtMakers

Katherine Dunham

Choreographer, Dancer, Dance Instructor

EducationMakers

James N. Eaton, Sr.

Curator, African American Studies Professor

MediaMakers

Russ Ewing

Television Reporter

MediaMakers

Thomas Fleming

Newspaper Columnist, Author, Newspaper Editor

ArtMakers

Edmund B. Gaither

Curator

EducationMakers

Jewelle Taylor Gibbs

Social Work Professor

MediaMakers

Earl G. Graves, Sr.

Magazine Publishing Chief Executive

ArtMakers

Jonathan Green

Painter, Printmaker

MediaMakers

Haki Madhubuti

Author