Black History Month

An American comedian who has gained international success and popularity. Hart has used his platform to empower financial literacy through partnerships with Chase Bank as well as fitness and healthy lifestyles with the opening of his new restaurant, Hart House. Hart is a television and film producer as well as actor who has created his production company, Hartbeat Productions.

He is known as one of the nation’s foremost Black scholars and an outspoken progressive activist. He is best known for his classics, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud.

Daughter of Haitian immigrants, Gray, a respected scholar and thought leader in academia has been appointed the 30th president of Harvard University. She is the first person of color and the second woman to hold the position.