Maker Directory

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SportsMakers

Charles Brown

Basketball Player, Basketball Official

MediaMakers, BusinessMakers

Cathy Hughes

Broadcast Chief Executive, Chief Executive Officer

MusicMakers

Eddy Clearwater

Blues Musician

ArtMakers

Bertrand Miles

Photographer

MediaMakers, BusinessMakers

Alfred Liggins, III

Broadcast Chief Executive, Radio Station Owner

ArtMakers

Curtis King

Nonprofit Chief Executive, Arts Administrator

ReligionMakers

Bishop Carolyn Tyler Guidry

Bishop

ArtMakers

Najwa I

Dancer, Arts Administrator

CivicMakers

Naomi Jean Gray

Nonprofit Chief Executive

MediaMakers

Roy Lewis

Photojournalist

CivicMakers

Lawrence Guyot

City Government Employee, Civil Rights Activist

MusicMakers

Walter J. Turnbull

Choral Director

MediaMakers

Vernon Smith

Magazine Reporter, Author

MediaMakers

Sylvester Monroe

Author, Newspaper Editor, Magazine Correspondent

EntertainmentMakers

Hattie Winston Wheeler

Actress

CivicMakers, EducationMakers

Harold Pates

Cultural Activist, College President, Teacher

ArtMakers

Angela Jackson

Playwright, Poet

PoliticalMakers

Barbara Ann Lumpkin

City Treasurer

ScienceMakers

Larry Gladney

Physicist

ArtMakers

Martha Brock-Leftridge

Photographer

CivicMakers

Hellen O'Neal-McCray

Civil Rights Activist

MediaMakers

Brenda Payton Jones

Newspaper Columnist

MusicMakers

Charley Pride

Country Singer, Country Music Singer

EducationMakers

Louis Rabb

Academic Administrator

MusicMakers

Philip Cohran

Trumpet Player

ArtMakers

Zonia T. Way

Interior Design Consultant

MusicMakers

Benjamin Wright

Music Director, Conductor, Music Arranger

EducationMakers

Yvonne Sanders-Butler

Health Advocate, Elementary School Principal

MilitaryMakers

Herbert Carter

Tuskegee Airman

BusinessMakers

Nathaniel R. Goldston, III

Food Service Entrepreneur, Food Service Executive

MusicMakers

Lessly "Count" Fisher

Bandleader

MediaMakers

John Heidelberg

Radio DJ, Broadcast Executive

EducationMakers

Charlestine Fairley

Academic Administrator

CivicMakers

Gloria Burgess

Poet, Business Consultant, Arts Administrator, Nonprofit Executive

CivicMakers, EducationMakers

Robert T. Starks

Social Activist, Professor

StyleMakers, MediaMakers

Dori Wilson

Fashion Model, Public Relations Executive

MediaMakers

Ovie Carter

Photojournalist

MusicMakers, ArtMakers

Freddi Evans

Author, Music Therapist

BusinessMakers

Cullen L. Dubose

Construction Executive

MedicalMakers

Dr. Robert J. Bacon, Sr.

Urologist

MediaMakers

Mary Mitchell

Newspaper Columnist

BusinessMakers

Robert James

Bank Executive

MusicMakers

Fruteland Jackson

Blues Musician

ScienceMakers

Bobby L. Wilson

Academic Administrator, Environmental Chemist

CivicMakers, MediaMakers

Phyllis Hicks

Nonprofit Administrator, Newspaper Marketing Director

MusicMakers

Helen Jones Woods

Trombonist

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Frank Brown

City Council Member, City Government Official

MusicMakers

Luigi Waites

Jazz Drummer

ArtMakers, EntertainmentMakers

John Beasley

Actor, Theater Chief Executive, Stage Director

ArtMakers

Marva Lee Pitchford-Jolly

Sculptor