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Brush with Fame

by UMOJA Staff | September 26, 2020 | Feature | 0 comments

  • Dr. Winslow Sargeant, Managing Director of S&T, LLC and Barack Obama, the 44th U.S. president, and the first African American leader of this country.
  • Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin
  • Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam.
  • Tommy G. Thompson, 42nd governor of Wisconsin.
  • Award-winning writer Nikki Giovanni, one of the best known and most celebrated poets of our time.
  • Michael Eric Dyson, best-selling author, sociologist and public intellectual.
  • Nia Trammell, a Dane County Circuit Court Judge; and, Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, is one of America’s foremost civil rights, religious and political figures.
  • Herb Lowe, former NABJ president; and, Dick Gregory, was a comedian and civil rights activist.
  • Don King, infamous boxing promoter.
  • Maya Angelou, was an acclaimed poet, civil rights activist, and award-winning author.
  • Jazz legend Duke Ellington, one of the most important creative forces in the music of the 20th century.
  • Michelle Obama, former first lady of the United States.
  • Charlayne Hunter-Gault, award-winning journalist, author and school desegregation pioneer.
  • Geoffrey Canada, renowned educator and president of the Harlem Children’s Zone in Harlem.
  • Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery, dubbed Dean of the civil rights movement, he co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
  • Ed Gordon, former BET news anchor and 60 Minutes contributor.
  • Andrew Young Jr., former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and a civil rights activist alongside Martin Luther King Jr.; and, Paul Soglin, former three-time Mayor of Madison.
  • Angela Davis, a counterculture icon, political activist, scholar, and author.
  • Ruby Dee, was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter, activist, poet and journalist.

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