By: Xavier Wright
Q: What does black history month mean to you in the year 2020? How do you define it? What does it represent?
Q: What’s the identity you want it to portray?
Q: What do you want people to see with Black excellence/history?
Q: Which lenses do you use to see black excellence?
Sports? Fashion? Dance? Poetry? Certain ways individuals look?
Some of my current famous figures of black excellence are :
Lebron James
Simone Biles
Common
Ermias “ Nipsey Hussle “ Asghedom
John Singleton
Rudy Francisco
Michelle Obama
Dr. Umar Johnson
Burna Boy
Some of my historic figures of black excellence :
Detroit Red also is known as Malcolm X
Marcus Garvey
James Baldwin
Maya Angelou
Angela Davis
Fred Hampton
Count Basie
Duke Ellington
Dick Gregory
Bob Marley
Daniel Hale Williams
Hattie McDaniel