In 2019, Billy Porter Was Kuumba Personified

www.theroot.com: And this year, as we celebrate Kuumba (kooh-mm-bah), or creativity, on this sixth day of Kwanzaa, one person stood up, showed up and showed out on stages and red carpets for all of 2019. The person who exemplifies Kuumba—to do always as much as we can, in the way that we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it—is none other than THEE Billy Porter whose fashion, fierceness and flair equals creativity in the flesh. In 2018, that accolade went to Netflix’s Jasmyn Lawson; in 2017, it was comedian Robin Thede.