It all began with Amanda Gorman, who was 22 when she shined at Joe Biden's inauguration earlier this year.  While she was new to most of us, she had in 2015 published a poetry book,   The One for Whom Food is Not Enough .  Plus, in 2017 she had already become the first National Youth Poet Laureate. That introduction to the general public catapulted her to an even bigger stage, the pregame ceremony for  Super Bowl LV , where she read a poem honoring the heroes of the pandemic: So while we honor them, it is they, every day, who honor us. In the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics around a quarter of the athletes representing the U.S. were Black.  You can expect  about as many in Tokyo .  While Simone Biles and Sha'Carri Richardson led the list, Simone is too famous to qualify for this posting, and Richardson was not selected for failing a marijuana test.  However, black females dominate the U.S. basketball and track teams.  One of them will attain international stardom through her victories