The Antiracist

Kondwani Fidel, has used the power of storytelling to confront education reform and civil rights all over the world. Fidel was honored in the "Best of Baltimore" issue of the Baltimore Sun for his courage, innovative thinking, and leadership in local schools and communities. Fidel is the author of Hummingbirds in the Trenches and Raw Wounds. He received his BA in English from Virginia State University, and his MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore. Fidel was honored with the Baltimore City 2018 Civil Rights Literary Award, and his bio-film Hummingbirds in The Trenches was nominated for Amazon's 2019 All Voices Film Festival. Devin Allen is a self-taught artist, born and raised in West Baltimore. He gainednational attention when his photograph of the Baltimore Uprising was published onthe cover ofTimein May 2015-only the third time the work of an amateurphotographer had been featured. Five years later, after the death of George Floyd,Tony McDade, and Breonna Taylor, his photograph from a BlackTrans LivesMatter protest was published on the cover ofTimemagazine in June2020. His photographs havebeen publishedinNew York Magazine, New YorkTimes, Washington Post, andApertureandare alsoin the permanent collections of theNational Museum of African American History and Culture, the Reginald F. LewisMuseum, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Allen is the winner of the 2017Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship. In 2017, hewasnominated for an NAACP ImageAwardas debut author for his bookA Beautiful Ghetto. He isfounder of Through TheirEyes, a youth photography educational program, andrecipient of an award from TheMaryland Commission on African American History and Culture for dynamicleadership in the Arts and Activism.