Continuing our celebration of black historical figures, Rowdy wants to highlight black people in film and other visual media. Some of the best performances put to the silver screen have been done by black actors, including Mahershala Ali in Moonlight (2016), Denzel Washington’s Oscar winning performance in Training Day (2001), as well as Viola Davis’ Emmy award winning performance in How to Get Away with Murder. Young black actors are reinventing comedy, with Ayo Edebiri and Donald Glover creating incredible pieces of media (Bottoms, Community, The Bear) that inflect the way gen-z speak and interpret culture as a whole. Issa Rae and Quinta Brunson have highlighted the female black experience through creating and starring in critically acclaimed shows Insecure and Abbott Elementary, respectively. Glover has also created an acclaimed show, Atlanta, that highlights a different sect of the black experience. It would be impossible to name every amazing entertainer in this caption, but it ...