I'm very happy for her, but she is an exception to the rule. That's why the term :"black excellence" is divisive and detrimental to our community building. Black Power which points to self-determination and collectivism is what we must rally around. Only a very small percentage of the black population in America have access to resources and opportunities to obtain "excellence" in this system, so you are only going to get a sporadic number of these stories every once and while when the majority of blacks here continue to suffer under oppressive racist and capitalist state government and conservative policies that deny education, which is the number one vehicle to achieve "excellence."
Why aren't more people questioning why resources to "excellence" are not available at all in black urban areas? Why black communities have over 50% percent poverty levels in many cities? Why job creation is only at the low skill, low wage, no benefit level (sub-working class level)? Once we address and expose these things and develop education models and social movements to restructure the system, then we can have the majority of blacks have access to gain ":excellence," because historically, "excellence" is only mildly achievable by a very small number of people NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU WORK IN THIS SYSTEM. That's how the political economy works.