Category: Black Excellence
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama was born on January 17, 1964 in Chicago, Illinois, growing up on the city’s South Side in a modest home with her brother Craig, mother Marian and father Fraser Robinson. From early on, education and personal discipline were emphasized in her family, which helped shape her trajectory toward leadership. She attended […]
When Congressman Jim Clyburn the only Democrat in Congress from South Carolina and a towering figure in American progressive politics steps into the metaphorical ring, you pay attention. And recently, he did just that. In a conversation with former DNC Chair Jaime Harrison on the At Our Table podcast, Clyburn declared the conservative blueprint known […]
Zellnor Myrie is a product of Brooklyn, New York, raised in a rent-stabilized apartment in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens by immigrant parents from Costa Rica, educated in the city public schools and later graduating from Brooklyn Technical High School. His background is deeply working-class and immigrant-rooted, and from the start of his career he’s carried that identity […]
