The People Who Paved the Way

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Pioneers, barrier-breakers, and history-makers who changed what's possible.

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Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. did everything. Trumpeter, arranger, composer, producer, record executive, film scorer, television pioneer, magazine founder, humanitarian — he touched nearly every corner of American popular culture across seven decades and left each one better than he found it. He produced the three best-selling albums of all time: Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall, […]

Quinta Brunson

Media & Entertainment

Quinta Brunson created, wrote, and stars in Abbott Elementary — the most acclaimed network comedy of the 2020s and a show that has revitalized the broadcast sitcom at a moment when everyone had declared it dead. The series, set in an underfunded predominantly Black elementary school in Philadelphia, won three Emmy Awards in its first […]

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