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Other leaders featured in the collection include McKinley Nelson who is the Founder of Project sWish which is a Chicago-based community organization that uses basketball to combat street violence by providing vital resources needed within under-resourced communities.

Amanda Gorman, 19, who is an empowering published author as well as the first-ever Youth Poet Laureate of the United States of America, is also featured.

\"We might look different,\" Gorman says in a statement. \"Our blackness might show itself both phenotypically\u2028 and culturally in a wide myriad of ways, but there's a certain commonality in what we're willing to fight for.

The powerful \"Watch Us Rise\" BHM '20 imagery also gives us a glimpse of a new Black History Month collection of sneakers from Nike which will officially be released on Feb. 19.

To further push the envelope for Black History Month, Nike is also recognizing 20 U.S.-based nonprofits that offer play and sportprograms, and support education and career development, with a total of $500,000 in grants.

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