Maker Directory

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CivicMakers

Reverend Al Sharpton

Community Activist, Minister, Civil Rights Leader

EntertainmentMakers

Harry Belafonte

Entertainer

EntertainmentMakers

Kim Fields

Television Actress, Television Director, Actress

EntertainmentMakers

William Greaves

Documentary Filmmaker, Stage Actor, Film Director

CivicMakers

Alma Arrington Brown

Bank Executive

CivicMakers

Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich

Nonprofit Chief Executive

CivicMakers

Donald Miller

Corporate Executive, Association Chief Executive

CivicMakers

Dorothy McIntyre

Airplane Pilot

EntertainmentMakers

Daphne Maxwell Reid

Television Actress, Actress

EntertainmentMakers

Louis Cameron Gossett, Jr.

Actor

ArtMakers, EntertainmentMakers

Janet Angel MacLachlan

Stage Actress, Film Actress

StyleMakers, CivicMakers

Allene Singho Roberts

Corporate Executive, Association Chief Executive, Model

CivicMakers

William Gerald Fletcher, Jr.

Nonprofit Chief Executive

CivicMakers

Vera Thelma Shorter

Community Activist

EntertainmentMakers, MusicMakers

Diahann Carroll

Film Actress, Singer

CivicMakers, MediaMakers

The Honorable Jerome W. Mondesire

Association Branch Executive, Newspaper Publishing Chief Executive, Association Executive

CivicMakers

Ilyasah Shabazz

Civil Rights Leader

CivicMakers, PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Byron Rushing

Museum Director, State Representative, Civil Rights Leader

ReligionMakers, CivicMakers

Vincent Harding

Theologian, Civil Rights Activist

CivicMakers

Gloria Toote

Federal Government Appointee

CivicMakers

Florence M. Rice

Consumer Activist

CivicMakers

Aileen Clarke Hernandez

Community Activist

EntertainmentMakers

Judy Richardson

Film Producer

CivicMakers

Henrietta Smith

Library Science Professor, School Media Librarian

EntertainmentMakers

Sheila Frazier

Actress, Television Producer

EntertainmentMakers

Bill Duke

Actor, Film Director

CivicMakers

Carol Sutton Lewis

Civic Leader

EntertainmentMakers

Derek Ferguson

Entertainment Chief Executive

CivicMakers

Richard X. Clark

Civil Rights Activist, Author, Community Activist

EntertainmentMakers

Malik Yoba

Actor

EntertainmentMakers

Whoopi Goldberg

Film Actress, Actress, Comedian

CivicMakers

Dolores D. Wharton

Civic Leader

ArtMakers, EntertainmentMakers

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Actor, Screenwriter, Stage Director

EntertainmentMakers

Richard Roundtree

Film Actor

EntertainmentMakers

Vanessa Williams

Film Actress, Singer

CivicMakers

Andrew P. Jackson

Librarian

CivicMakers

Patricia Banks Edmiston

Program Manager, Consultant, Community Activist

EntertainmentMakers, BusinessMakers

Stephanie Tavares-Rance

Producer, Marketing Chief Executive

EntertainmentMakers

Marcia Smith

Film Producer

LawMakers, CivicMakers

Franklin A. Thomas

Foundation Executive, Lawyer

CivicMakers

Wendy Van Amson

Dietician, Nonprofit Executive

CivicMakers

Andrea Frazier

Civic Leader

CivicMakers

Mora McLean

Nonprofit Executive

CivicMakers

Stacie NC Grant

Nonprofit Executive

CivicMakers

Rashad Robinson

Civic Leader

CivicMakers

Constance W. Rice

Academic Administrator, Nonprofit Executive

CivicMakers

Mia Birdsong

Nonprofit Executive

CivicMakers

Anne Williams-Isom

Nonprofit Executive

CivicMakers

Dorothy Burnham

Professor, Biology Professor, Civil Rights Activist

CivicMakers

Charles "Fred" Hearns

Municipal Official, City Government Administrator