The Us filmmaker became the first Black director to score Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Director, and Original Screenplay (winning the latter). Julie Dash - Daughters of the Dust (1992 ...

Andrews was the first Black hospital administrator in the state of Ohio, and served as MetroHealth’s director from 1964 to 1981. Williams passed away in 2006. As director, he oversaw the ...

He would be SMU’s first Black athletic director. Evans has served in the athletic director role at Maryland since 2017 when he was hired as the interim before being named to the role permanently ...

She officially retired from dance in 2014. Mack became the youngest and first Black director and dean of Juilliard’s dance division in 2018. In November 2024, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater ...

Lenny Henry talks to Steve McQueen, the first black director to win a Best Picture Oscar. Lenny Henry on how anger and protest found their way to stage and screen in the 1970s.