From the first black woman to win Sundance’s Best Director award to the CEO of a mobile gaming company, from a brilliant astrophysicist training young South Africans to a trumpet player bringing music to Philly’s urban centers, The Daily Beast has identified some of the rising black leaders in the arts, technology, politics, and more.
In honor of Black History Month, we reached out to established experts across the spectrum and asked them to name up-and-coming African-American leaders who are poised to make a big difference in the United States and the world.
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