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ALL THAT IS AND ENCOMPASSES BLACK BRILLIANCE.

THESE ARE THE PUBLIC NAMES THAT HAVE MADE BLACK & BLACKNESS SO BRILLIANT, ENCOURAGING AND INSPIRING OTHERS.

Maya Angelou - Ai Generation (Leonardo Ai)

This list was inspired by the Instagram account @AAResilience (Profiles of Resilience).

SHARON THOMPSON - DR. CARTER G. WOODSON - EARL G. GRAVES SR. - HENRY O. FLIPPER - BUFFALO SOLDIERS - CATHY WILLIAMS - OLAUDAH EQUIANO - PERCY JULLIAN - SERENA WILLIAMS - IBN BATTUTA - ROBERT SMALLS - JESSE OWENS - ZORA NEALE HURSTON - DORIE MILLER - MARY BOWSER - ANITA BAKER - TUSKEEGEE AIRMEN - LANGSTON HUGHES - YAA ASANTEWAA - DUKE ELLINGTON - MAE JEMISON - AVERY BROOKS - MANSA MUSA - NINA SIMONE - DOROTHY DANDRIDGE - JOE LOUIS - GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER - CINQUE - HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS - THURGOOD MARSHALL - JIMI HENDRIX - ERYKAH BADU - MAYA ANGELOU - BENJAMIN BANNEKER - WILLIAM JACKSON - JOHN LEWIS - FATS WALLER - CRISPUS ATTUCKS - CHUCK BERRY - PHILLIS WHEATLEY - CAB CALLOWAY - GABRIEL PROSSER - MILES DAVIS - HATTIE MCDANIEL - DESMOND TUTU - TAHARQA - ALEXANDRE DUMAS - BESSIE COLEMAN - VERNICE ARMOUR - AUGUSTA SAVAGE - BILLIE HOLIDAY - SIDNEY POITIER - COLIN POWELL - U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK H. OBAMA - U.S. FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA - LENA HORNE - NELSON MANDELA - CHARLES ALSTON - PETER SALEM - QUEEN AMINATU - PRINCE - GEORGE FOREMAN - CORETTA SCOTT KING - MENELIK I - MARIAN ANDERSON - SAVION GLOVER - MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. - AMIRI BARAKA - ALVIN AILEY - JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT - COUNTEE CULLEN - HANNIBAL BARCA - QUINCY JONES - THELONIOUS MONK - ABU BAKR II - NAT TURNER - ELLA FITZGERALD - SNOOP DOGG - PAUL ROBESON - JOHN COLTRANE - AARON DOUGLAS - JULIAN BOND - PEARL BAILEY - MICHAEL JACKSON - PAPS SINGLETON - JOHN SINGLETON - TEWODROS II - ASA PHILIP RANDOLPH - SUNDIATA KEITA - W.E.B. DU BOIS - HARRIET JACOBS - DAVID WALKER - HENRY OSSAWA TANNER - EMMIT TILL - HIRAM RHODES REVELS - MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE - ALICE WALKER - LEO AFRICANUS - NEFERTITI - NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA ANN JAMES - NAT LOVE - MAULANA KARENGA - CORNEL WEST - ARTHUR ASHE - ZARA YAQOB - LOUIS ARMSTRONG - MOLEFI ASANTE - BUSTA RHYMES - ELIZABETH CATLETT - AUGUST WILSON - FRANCIS HARPER - IDA B. WELLS - WHITNEY YOUNG - MOS DEF - SHIRLEY CHISOLM - RALPH ELLISON - EDMONIA LEWIS - OBA EWUARE - JEAN BAPTISTE DU SABLE - TALIB KWELI - JACK JOHNSON - GREGORY HINES - HAILE SELASSIE - JAMES VAN DER ZEE - LIONEL HAMPTON - PRINCE HALL - ALTHEA GIBSON - HURBERT JULIAN - RUBY DEE - JAMES BROWN - BARBARA JORDAN - GWENDOLYN BROOKS - MUHAMMAD ALI - A TRIBE CALLED QUEST - ASKIA MUHAMMAD - BILL PICKETT - CHADWICK BOSEMAN - ROMARE BEARDEN - SONEQUA MARTIN-GREEN - ARTURO SCHOMBURG - SPIKE LEE - MARVIN GAYE - PHARRELL WILLIAMS - MATTHEW HENSON - CARL LEWIS - CLEOPATRA VII - MARTIN DELANY - HENRY LOUIS GATES - CHARLES DREW - JEAN TOOMER - OSCAR MICHEAUX - MARTIN LAWRENCE - TONI MORRISON - LORRAINE HANSBERRY - COMMON - NIKKI GIOVANNI - KWAME NKRUMAH - HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET - JAMEL SHABAZZ - QUEEN NZINGA - KATHERINE JOHNSON - NEIL DEGRASS TYSON - LEVAR BURTON - BLACK PANTHERS - GRANVILLE T. WOODS - HALE WOODRUFF - ADAM CLAYTON POWELL JR. - WYNTON MARSALIS - BRADFORD MARSALIS - TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE - EDDIE MURPHY - HATSHEPSUT - KATHERINE DUNHAM - PAUL MOONEY - BENJAMIN E. MAYS - ROY WILKINS - MARY CHURCH TERRELL - JA RODGERS - SIMONE BILES - JAMES MCCUNE-SMITH - KWAME TURE - HENRY MCNEAL TURNER - DAVE CHAPPELLE - MIRIAM MAKEBA - OW GURLEY - SAMUEL L. JACKSON - MICHAEL JORDAN - SPENCER WILLIAMS - DOROTHY WEST - RICHARD WRIGHT - ANGELA BASSET - ERIKA ALEXANDER - OSEI TUTU - ANGELA DAVIS - JAMES WELDON JOHNSON - WILLIAM MONROE TROTTER - BLANCHE BRUCE - GUION BLUFORD - KENNETH CHENAULT - LEBRON JAMES - WALTER WHITE - SHAKA ZULU - KENDRICK LAMAR - PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR - HARRIET TUBMAN - RONALD MCNAIR - HERBIE HANCOCK - BAYARD RUSTIN - HUBERT HARRISON - CLAUDE MCKAY - RAY CHARLES - FANNIE LOU HAMER - U.S. VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS - NELLA LARSEN - JAMES BALDWIN - AMENHOTEP III - CHINUA ACHEBE - JESSE JACKSON - SATCHEL PAIGE - CHARLES MINGUS - ANNA JULIA COOPER - MARCUS GARVEY - DENMARK VESEY - JACKIE ROBINSON - MIKE TYSON - DAVID FAGEN - CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON - RAMSES THE GREAT - P.B.S. PINCHBACK - GARRETT MORGAN - HANK AARON - BOOKER T. WASHINGTON - LENNY KRAVITZ - FREDERICK DOUGLASS - AHMAD BABA AL-TIMBUKT - U.S. REPRESENTATIVE MAXINE WATERS - RICHARD ALLEN - ASSATA SHAKUR - ARTHUR LEE - WILLIAM “BILL” HENRY COSBY JR. - BUTTERFLY MCQUEEN - MOS DEF - ANDREW YOUNG - SELMA BURKE

A TRIBE CALLED QUEST - AKHENATEN - SOJOURNER TRUTH - ARCHIBALD MOTLEY - BENJAMIN O. DAVIS SR. - KEHINDE WILEY - CETSHWAYO KAMPANDE - AMINATTA FORNA - AUDRE LORDE - DEBBIE ALLEN - AMOS WILSON - ALMA THOMAS - BELL HOOKS - AVA DUVERNAY - BARABARA CHASE-RIBOUD - ARNA BONTEMPS - JIM BROWN - GORDON PARKS - PEARL BAILEY - KIAH DUGGINS - BEHANZIN HOSSU BOWELLE - MEDGER EVERS - MALCOM X - LEWIS LATIMER - NARMER MENES - ALICIA KEYS - IMHOTEP - ELLA BAKER - KAREEM ABDUL JABBAR - DOROTHY HEIGHT - RALPH BUNCHE - RICHARD PRYOR - THUTMOSE - FRANTZ FANNON - DIANA ROSS - NORMAN LEWIS - DANIEL HALE WILLIAMS - MARIAN ANDERSON - PHYLICIA RASHAAD - ALEXANDRE DUMAS - OUTKAST - GWENDOLYN BROOKS - AARON DOUGLAS - DENZEL WASHINGTON - HALLE BERRY - RUBY DEE - JAMES VAN DER ZEE - JEAN BAPTISTE DU SABLE - PAUL CUFFEE - OSSIE DAVIS - JAY-Z - MARY ELIZA MAHONEY - NICHELLE NICHOLS - WILLIAM STILL - DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. - INDIA.ARIE SIMPSON - ABDOULAYE SADJI - ROBERT DUNCANSON - SUNNI ALI - ARCHIE SHEPP - ABSALOM JONES - IDA B. WELLS - BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS - JA RODGERS - VIRGIL ABLOH - ABU BAKR II - LOIS MAILOU JONES - AMIRI BARAKA - NAT LOVE - ADDISON SCURLOCK - KOBE BRYANT - JILL SCOTT - BILLIE HOLIDAY - ALICE WALKER - BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS - MARY CHURCH TERRELL - CHARLES WHITE - CHADWICK BOSEMAN - JUBILEE DAY - MUHAMMAD ALI - MATTHEW HENSON - CHESTER HIMJES - ALBERT AYLER - BETYE SAAR - DUTTY BOUKMAN - NAT TURNER - ALTHEA GIBSON - JAMES ARMISTEAD LAFAYETTE - PETER SALEM - SERENA WILLIAMS - TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE - BEN OKRI - CRISPUS ATTUCKS - STEVIE WONDER - COCO GAUFF - JEAN-JACQUES DESSALINES - BUCHI EMECHETA - JOHN FOX - FATS JENKINS - EULACE PEACOCK - SOL BUTLER - DEHART HUBBARD - HENRY O FLIPPER - SAM LANGFORD - MARSHALL “MAJOR” TAYLOR - JOHN SINGLETON - JACK JOHNSON - FRED V. CHERRY - DIANE LINDSAY - WILLIAM “BILLY” LEE - TUSKEGEE AIRMEN - WILLIAM A. CAMPBELL - OSCAR MICHAEUX - BENJAMIN O. DAVIS JR. - JOHN LAWSON - BILL GOINES - SAMORY TOURE - MENELIK II - BLACK PANTHERS - YOSEF BEN-JOCHANNAH - JAMES MONROE TROTTER - CHARLES REMOND DOUGLAS - DORIE MILLER - WILLIAM H. CARNEY - ZORA NEALE HURSTON - HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. - MARCIA ANDERSON - CHARLOTTE HAWKINS BROWN - NEEDHAM ROBERTS - CLARENCE SASSER - LT. COLONEL CHARLES YOUNG - ABDELKA DER ELL DJEZAIRI - LESTER WALTON - SEPTIMA POINSETTE CLARK - T.G. STEWARD - MICHELE S. JONES - WILLIAM THOMPSON - FANNY JACKSON COPPIN - EMMETT J. SCOTT - VERNON BAKER - ELIZABETH EVELYN WRIGHT - MOLEFI KETE ASANTE - BENJAMIN E. MAYS - JAMES H. HARRIS - SAMUEL GRAVELY JR. - DENNIS BELL - WHITNEY HOUSTON - BERNIE MAC - MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER - QUEEN LATIFA - JOY ANGELA DEGRUY - CHANCELLOR WILLIAMS


As a part of our BLACK BRILLIANCE project, we’re striving to develop artworks, content and media to further showcase and celebrate those individuals that have helped to make African Americans, Africans, Hispanics, Black and Brown People and Communities of Color, Ethnicity and Culture powerful and significant. The above list will be used as our guide for what we plan to develop.

As contributing to our NūHUMAN PROJECT, we believe that the effort of Art to encourage and influence growth and innovation, we believe that a healthy review and reflection upon the past is important. As we compel each other to move towards newer forms of identity thru growth and innovation, they must come from while resonating within an appreciation and celebration of those who came before and paved a way.


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CONTINUING TO DEVELOP MY THEORIES & PHILOSOPHIES!

Directly from Liam Ian.

As I’ve taken time to ponder over the Artwork we’re striving to create, I’ve also had to mull over what its all supposed to mean in this modern world with all the current and modern issues of the day. Racism and an oppression of Brown people in America. The dismantling of democracy within a place that had its beginning in the enslavement and degradation of others. The rise of technologies running parallel with the apparent rise of fascism and authoritarianism. The reversion of African American progression within American society with an almost equal distortion of progressive principles and values. I’ve been pondering over these things.

Today I stand ready to continue the journey and endeavor of creating—creating with purpose and meaning. the mission isn’t just to create but to create with conscience and intention. A reflection of who we are as Black and Brown People and a blatant concern and interest for who should become into and for the future.

INTELLIGENCE. ETHNICITY. INNOVATION.

It’s all fundamental to who we are and what we should and must even become. It’s too not important and essential to acknowledge the past—that which has profoundly made us who we are—but the hope and potential of how we shall shape the future. While—as the primary Artist and Entrepreneur—it’s my job to set the tone, vision, mission and direction for the enterprise, I’m striving also to stay honest and true to who I am and those experiences that have made and shaped me with a pure intention for addressing the future.

As social media has become a cornerstone of identity and culture nowadays, I believe People of Color, Ethnicity and Culture must not sign our souls away for the hope of becoming more. We must move beyond the confines of the definitions and expectations of this world to get back to more natural paradigms and perspectives.We’ve lost our connections to spirituality and nature in favor of commercialization and capitalism. As I envision a world for People of Color that is stepped in spirituality and community, I also see the presence of nature and technology to compel us towards greater and greater goals and objectives.

In creating lately, here are the ideas, concepts, theories and philosophies I’ve been playing around with;

Something Like Afrofuturism

Reimagining the future through Black and Brown cultural lenses by blending ethnicity, science fiction, spirituality, history with African diasporic knowledge, wisdom, aesthetic, and empowerment. I believe that the facts of the designed and applied torment and struggle of the African American—including those within the them—help to illuminate and justify the speciality of who and what we are therefore to serve as the call to rise rather than submitting to an ever strategic diminishment and fall. - This includes and builds upon the use of symbolism, fashion-inspired, and tech-infused imagery that highlights African American (Black and Brown) identity and resilience with an intention for what was the past to inform the future. Stylized portraits and speculative design that projects the power, possibility and potential promise of impactful Black and Brown Futures.

Sankofa Principle (from Akan Philosophy)

“Go back and get it” — Looking to the past to inform the future (*…while using the ideas of the future to appreciate and celebrate the past). We must encourage retrieving the forgotten or suppressed while embarking on the journey into the undiscovered country that is the future. African, Latino and even Asian motifs, patterns and historical references in modern urban art and design. The use of photography to draw parallels or illuminate contrasts between past struggles and current realities. - Ancestral memory, cyclical time, cultural continuity and historical wisdom.

Music & Hip-Hop Aesthetic

Anchored in urban expression, the hip-hop aesthetic is rebellious, rhythmic, and raw often shaped by struggle, resistance and community storytelling. - The incorporation of graffiti styles, remix culture, streetwear, dance and lyrical themes mixed with an anticipation of what’s to come in the future. Visual sampling—like layering photos or design elements—as metaphor and message.

Critical Race Theory in Visual Culture

Race and systemic power influence representation. Identity and access or the lack thereof to the resources and means to resisting stereotypes and the offering or presentation of new narratives. - The effort is to create work that continues to challenge racial tropes and stereotypes while centering on Black and Brown humanity, nuance and complexity. To highlight systems of inequality and associated traumas without reducing subjects to trauma by being culturally to universally encouraging and empowering. - Representation, resistance, systematic critique, truth-telling, and expansive dialogue on the potential to affect the future.

Continuing With An Abstract Application

At a foundational level, I’m continuing to work with an abstract mindset therefore creative direction. What I’ve observed about this modern day is an over-indulgence on the physical form for and of People of Color in artwork and media. Because I believe there’s something substantial about “the abstract”—relying on the viewer to establish, create and extract their own ideas and concepts—there’s more room to encourage, inform and inspire deeper levels of thought and critical analysis. The incorporation of ideas and themes within creating abstract art compels me and any artist to think more creatively and intellectually with greater meaning and appreciation for the viewer to be their own potential creator.

CONTINUING WITH OUR PROJECTS!

We won’t be hinder by these matters of the day—we will continue on with the projects we’ve laid out . . . and more if needed and the opportunities suggest. As we further develop, we will push forward in developing works, products and services to encourage, inspire and empower. We’re not done because we’ve just begun! I am and we are LIAM IAN™.

Check our Projects List HERE!


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CONTINUING ON WITH "BLACK BRILLIANCE"!

EXPANDING UPON THE IDEA TO DO AND PRODUCE MORE.

Answering the call to develop more catering the the appreciation, celebration and inspiration of Black and Brown People and Communities, we’re continuing with this Through-Line Project (TLP). As our interests have grown within this subject matter of Black and Brown Success, Progress and Aptitude, we’re continuing also with producing Paint & Canvas pieces. These pieces will help to influence and impact other works and activities within the Design and Photography (including Videography) categories.

Consistent with our 2025 Theme of “Change. Art. Social Justice.”, “Black Brilliance” exists intended to be an Abstract Art series used in assisting in other product development activities. The goal is to feature positive imagery of Black and Brown Individuals, Communities, Cultures and peripheral aspects and images as positive messaging and reinforcement in contrast to the very present and relevant issues standing upon those communities today.

Adhering to our custom concepts of deep, rich and dark colors that tap into the spirit of Black and Brown People, we’re striving to use them as base elements to be reinforced and accented by bright metallic visual elements used to inform. Incorporating earth-tones, plant and flora elements and blues that inform the oceans and skies, we’re emphasizing Nature as a key component to culture, ethnicity and even progress. From an image of a Flat Black Human Silhouette on a Copper Background, we’re developing images that actively embody the modern aesthetics of Black and Brown People with a classic intentions. 


Additional to our efforts, we’re aligning our private membership platform THE CIRCLE to further expand upon our private project, THE NūHUMAN FOUNDATION. We’re looking to connect and build with Visual Artists, Designers, Photographers, Videographers and Storytellers to create a new community to help take things above and beyond. Our goal is find, support, showcase and elevate artistic works that refine and redefine the African American, Black and Brown, and Ethnic identities and spirit into and for the future.


CONNECTED: CONTINUING ON WITH "BLACK BRILLIANCE"!

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LIAM IAN'S THE CREATIVE COLORING BOOK

Backed up on work and assignments with this project on hold for a few factors, we’re making the decision to self publish this book. Until we get to that point though, we’re publishing portions of the book here.

[LIAM IAN'S THE CREATIVE COLORING BOOK SAMPLE]

Like our custom “THE MOTIVATION BOOK”, this CREATIVE COLORING BOOK was inspired by many sources. As we’ve moved into what feels like a whole different phase of existence as People of Color in this modern day, we find there’s a need to prioritize remembering the messages of the past that have served to inform us about who we are and who ought to become. We believe in having a responsibility within society to making the future a better place and that starts with recognizing the responsibility we have to ourselves an how we treat and consider others today.

CREATIVITY MATTERS!

Out of our Coaching & Consulting platform, we’re to inspire creativity in as many places as possible. This coloring book also assists us in conveying to you and others that creativity matters! Creativity—as much People of Color, Ethnicity and Culture—matters.


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CRIMSON CAPE™ GAMEPLAY!

SETUP WAS DIFFICULT BUT AT LEAST IT HAPPENED!

Screenshot of Twitch.tv. Delayed gaming due to several technical issues. Refining the setup, link, connection and login functions to adapt to more adequate streaming timetables.

As a part of our passion for so much more that has to do with Artistry and (Graphic) Design, we’re fully engaged in sharing the associated passion for gaming as a way of seeing Artistry within a whole new light. Beginning and testing with Grand Theft Auto V, we were able to see how things work. While a bit late to the game, we’ll be using this platform to also discover other Gaming, Art and Digital Art enthusiasts as they go active within these digital worlds. We’ll developing a schedule of when we’ll be streaming and embarking on unique adventures. Our next session will be soon and to also include…FORTNITE!


CRIMSON CAPE™ GAMEPLAY!

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JusTHOUGHTS

WORDS ARE THE INITIAL STEPS TO MANIFESTATION.

JusTHOUGHTS: Juste Thoughts — Thoughts that have merit and right within them and their meanings. Thoughts that contribute to a just society and state of being. Justice and Fairness especially for and towards those who truly deserve them.

Art is just one aspect of being Creative. Words and Thoughts are truly the initial structures, ideas and concepts to bringing Art and Creativity to light and reality.

This project proposal is for the development of a custom IP Product the convey positive and reaffirming messages to “Black” Men and People of Color, Ethnicity and Culture within American society.

This project is to develop a multiphase product series starting with special IP Publication Products leading to Apparel and other peripheral items.


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