Commemorating Black Brilliance on Wikipedia

Remembering Black artists who passed in 2023

Side-by-side photos of Richard Hunt (CC BY-SA 4.0, author unknown), Andre Braugher (CC BY-SA 4.0, Blackdiamond2015), and Grace Bumbry (public domain).

As we near the end of 2023, many are publishing or broadcasting remembrances of the public figures we lost over the past year. As a volunteer Wikipedia editor, my primary focus is improving the representation of marginalized people — Black and trans/nonbinary folks in particular — on the encyclopedia. So whenever I…