Grant Cameron

GZTV Every great classroom moment has someone behind it who said yes. At Renaissance Middle School, that person was Thelesia Barksdale, the AVID teacher who opened her 6th, 7th, and 8th grade classes to award-winning international model and Fashion Executive Justyn Burgest Graham. Barksdale has since retired, and the day she made possible now lives on GZTV as a lasting tribute to her work with students.

Lyle grew up with Ralph Lauren and Louis Vuitton already in the household, but it was Karl Kani, the self-taught designer who built one of hip-hop's first major streetwear brands from nothing and became known as the godfather of hip-hop clothing, who convinced Lyle he could actually do it too. That belief followed him to Florida A&M University, where he pursued an MBA and took his first real steps into fashion and other creative ventures, co-founding a line called Luciano Lyle with childhood fri

In 2014, Carlton Mackey typed three words into Instagram and got nothing back. That absence became the foundation for Black Men Smile, a movement now a decade deep into changing what the internet associates with Black men. GZTV's Behind The Lens, Episode 5, sponsored by Hollyland, tells the story of how it started.