Maker Directory

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MediaMakers

Richard Love

Newspaper Editor, Newspaper Publishing Chief Executive

PoliticalMakers

Doris Topsy-Elvord

City Council Member

CivicMakers

Sidney L. Rushing

City Government Administrator

CivicMakers

Dr. Gilbert R. Mason, Sr.

Social Activist, Family Practitioner, Consumer Activist

CivicMakers

Katie Booth

Civic Leader

MusicMakers

Isaac "Redd" Holt

Jazz Musician

CivicMakers

Dale Clinton

Community Activist, Community Resource Specialist

CivicMakers

Ernest McBride

Civil Rights Activist, Community Leader

MusicMakers

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Curator, Music Composer, History Professor

ArtMakers

Sterling Plumpp

Jazz and Blues Poet, African American Studies Professor, English Professor

EducationMakers

Leonard Dawson

Academic Administrator, Education Consultant, College President

CivicMakers

Anne Ashmore-Hudson

Civic Leader

CivicMakers

Julius Wayne Dudley

Foundation Chief Executive, History Professor, Community Activist

MusicMakers

Jean Carne

Singer

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Tyrone Brooks

State Representative

MediaMakers, CivicMakers

Carole Henderson Tyson

Media Company Chief Executive, Nonprofit Chief Executive

LawMakers, PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Rodney Slater

Transportation Lawyer, Cabinet Appointee

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Horace G. Dawson

Academic Administrator, Foreign Ambassador

CivicMakers

Joyce Ladner

Sociologist, Academic Administrator, Civil Rights Activist

ArtMakers

Lou Stovall

Printmaker

MediaMakers

William Raspberry

Newspaper Columnist

MedicalMakers

Dr. Clinton Warner

Civil Rights Activist, Surgeon

MusicMakers

B. B. King

Blues Guitarist

CivicMakers

Ruth Wells

Community Leader

CivicMakers

Clyde Martin

Regional Sales Manager, Civic Activist, Community Activist

ReligionMakers

Reverend B. Herbert Martin, Sr.

Civil Rights Activist, Pastor

BusinessMakers, StyleMakers

George Johnson

Personal Care Executive

BusinessMakers, StyleMakers

Cornell McBride, Sr.

Corporate Chief Executive, Personal Care Chief Executive

CivicMakers

Betty Currie

Presidential Secretary

CivicMakers

Amazon Brooks

Domestic

LawMakers

The Honorable Lillian Burke

Municipal Court Judge

CivicMakers

Leonard Blackshear

Cultural Heritage Chief Executive

CivicMakers

Victoria Adams

Civil Rights Activist

SportsMakers

Charles Brown

Basketball Player, Basketball Official

MediaMakers

Alexis Scott

Newspaper Publishing Chief Executive, Newspaper Columnist

MediaMakers

Francis Ward

Newspaper Correspondent

MusicMakers

Eddy Clearwater

Blues Musician

ArtMakers

Bertrand Miles

Photographer

ScienceMakers

Evelynn M. Hammonds

History Professor, Science Educator

ArtMakers

Curtis King

Nonprofit Chief Executive, Arts Administrator

ReligionMakers

Bishop Carolyn Tyler Guidry

Bishop

BusinessMakers

Harold A. Dawson, Sr.

Real Estate Entrepreneur

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Michael Thurmond

State Labor Commissioner

CivicMakers

Frank Smith

Civil Rights Activist, Cultural Heritage Chief Executive, City Council Member, Museum Director

ArtMakers

Najwa I

Dancer, Arts Administrator

CivicMakers

Naomi Jean Gray

Nonprofit Chief Executive

MediaMakers

Roy Lewis

Photojournalist

LawMakers

Robert Bennett

Lawyer

MusicMakers

Mattiwilda Dobbs Janzon

Opera Singer

BusinessMakers

John Nathan Hill

Bank Executive