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