We gradually bring to a close, our two weeks celebration of all the African women who made us feel good about the recent Met Gala 2024.
Lena Waithe is an actress, producer and screen writer, with a degree in Cinema & Television Arts from Columbia College Chicago. She created the successful series Chi, which has been running for almost six years.
Also, Waithe wrote and produced, Crime Film Queen and Slim, plus the first African woman to win 2017 Primetime award for Outstanding Writing for Comedy series . Is that genius or what? And featured in a Steve Spielberg movie.
Furthermore, listed as 100 most Influential people 2018. And has Tony, MTV, Primetime and several other awards. Impressive!
Next is Teyana Jacqueli Taylor is a model, singer, choreographer, actress and music director. She released her first album two years after her sixteenth birthday, in 2008. By 2010, she featured in Stomp The Yard: Homecoming. Fast, right? That is how we roll.
And Taylor Russell a Jamaican -Canadian actress. She explored her gift as an artist, playing the guitar at school and ceasing every opportunity to share her talent till she got a chance in the drama series, Lost In Space.
Da Queen Dana Eileen Owens aka Queen Latifa,has been in the entertainment industry for over thirty years as a rapper, actress and singer. Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the last and greatest in this episode, Queen Latifa. She has won Grammys, Emmys, Academy, BET and several other awards in the span of these decade. First Hip-hop artist with a star in Hollywood Walk of Fame. We could go on and on. Well done queen. You inspire many.
Closing this episode, is our commissioner of Culture, New York City Laurie Cumbo. She is a Visual Art expert with a master’s from the New York University. She created a museum for diaspora art in 1999. And joined politics in 2013 winning the council seat. She was made commissioner in March 2022. Naturally, she would grace the Met Gala. And naturally, we celebrate her presence at the event.
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