Maker Directory

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MedicalMakers

Dr. Price Cobbs

Psychiatrist

MedicalMakers

Dr. Henry L. Cook

Civil Rights Activist, Dentist

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

EducationMakers, ArtMakers

Mary Schmidt Campbell

Academic Administrator, Art Curator

ArtMakers

Ruth Beckford

Dancer, Choreographer

ArtMakers

Dawoud Bey

Photographer

MediaMakers

Barbara Boyd

Television Reporter

ArtMakers

Abena Joan P. Brown

Stage Producer

ArtMakers

Oscar Brown, Jr.

Poet, Entertainer, Music Composer, Actor

MediaMakers

Lucky Cordell

Radio Personality

ArtMakers

Allan Crite

Painter

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

MediaMakers

Hal Jackson

Radio Personality, Sports Promoter

ArtMakers

Wadsworth A. Jarrell, Sr.

Painter

MediaMakers

Vernon Jarrett

Newspaper Columnist, Television Host, Radio Host

MedicalMakers

Shirley H. Jones

Marriage and Family Therapist

MediaMakers

Herb Kent

Radio Personality

ArtMakers

Samuel Greenlee

Fiction Writer, Poet

MediaMakers

Cecil Hale

Corporate Executive, Radio Personality

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

MediaMakers

Barry A. Mayo

Broadcast Entrepreneur, Radio Program Director

ArtMakers

Terry McMillan

Fiction Writer

ArtMakers

David Driskell

Art Professor, Curator, Fine Artist, Visual Arts Collector

ArtMakers

Katherine Dunham

Choreographer, Dancer, Dance Instructor

MediaMakers

Russ Ewing

Television Reporter

MediaMakers

Thomas Fleming

Newspaper Columnist, Author, Newspaper Editor

MedicalMakers

Dr. Harold Freeman

Oncologist

ArtMakers

Edmund B. Gaither

Curator

MediaMakers

Earl G. Graves, Sr.

Magazine Publishing Chief Executive

ArtMakers

Jonathan Green

Painter, Printmaker

MediaMakers

Haki Madhubuti

Author

MediaMakers

Holmes "Daddy-O" Daylie

Radio Personality

MediaMakers

Merri Dee

Television Personality

ArtMakers

Jeff Donaldson

Painter

MedicalMakers

Dr. Henry Lewis

Pharmacist

MedicalMakers

Dr. Virgil Norris

Community Activist, Surgeon

ArtMakers

Lorenzo Pace

Mixed Media Artist

MediaMakers

Timothy Parker

Crossword Puzzle Designer

ArtMakers

Gordon Parks

Fiction Writer, Film Director, Photographer, Filmmaker