Tina Allen
Tina Allen (Disamba 9, 1949 - Satumba 9, 2008) yar wasan kwaikwayo  ita Ba'amurke ce da aka sani da abubuwan tunawar ga fitattun Amurkawa na Afirka, gami da Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, da George Washington Carver .

Kuruciya da ilimi 
An haifi Allen Tina Powell a Hempstead, New York a cikin shekara 1949 zuwa mahaifin Gordon "Specs" Powell, dan wasan jazz wanda ya taka leda a rukunin Ed Sullivan Show, da Rosecleer Powell haifaffen Grenada. Mahaifiyarta marubuciya ce kuma ma'aikaciyar lafia ce, kuma ɗaya daga cikin kawun Allen wani sculptor ne. Allen ta fara zane-zane a cikin shekaru 5; A lokacin da ta kai shekaru 10 ta kasance tana tsara kayan aikinta na yin fenti a gabar tekun Grenada, West Indies inda ta zauna har zuwa lokacin Yan matan cin ta.

Allen yarinya ce mai fasaha wanda ta fara sassaka tun tana da shekaru 13, lokacin da aka sanya ta yin toka kuma a maimakon haka ta gina gunkin Aristotle. Wani sculptor ɗan ƙasar Lithuania-Ba-Amurke William Zorach ne ya ba ta jagoranci wanda ya bayyana ta a matsayin gwarzuwa. Ta samu karatun digiri ta na farko a bangaren  fasaha daga Jami'ar Kudancin Alabama a 1978. Ta kuma yi karatu a Makarantar Kayayyakin da ke Manhattan kuma ta sami Masters dinta a Cibiyar Pratt .

Mutane sun bayyana fasaharta a matsayin tarihi a cikin tagulla domin koyaushe tana mai da hankali kan muhimman cin baƙaƙen tarihin  kuma tana son nuna su ta hanyar sassaka. Allen takan mayar da hankali kan Harlem Renaissance. Ta kuma sami lokutan aikinta na musamman akan maza bakar fata sannan ta mayar da sha'awarta ga mata bakar fata.

Bayan kwalejin ta ba da gudummawa ga AmeriCorps VISTA kuma a tsawon shekaru da yawa ta dauki bakuncin wasan kwaikwayo na gidan talabijin na gida akan zane-zane a Mobile, Alabama.

Sana'a 
Babban aikin Allen na farko shine mutum-mutumi  na tagulla mai ƙafa tara na A. Philip Randolph, shugaban ƙungiyar 'yan uwa na masu ɗaukar motar barci . An ba da izini a cikin 1986, an nuna gunkin a tashar jirgin ƙasa na Back Bay kuma an nuna shi akan Trail na Mata na Boston .

A cikin shekaru ashirin masu zuwa Allen ta ci gaba da samar da sahihin zane-zane na bakar fata masu fafutuka don nunawa a wuraren jama'a. Ana kuma tattara ayyukanta na gidajen tarihi, kamfanoni da masu tara kuɗi masu zaman kansu. Da take bayyana dalilinta, ta ce a wata hira, "Aikina ba nawa bane, namu ne." Ba wai kawai aikinta ya ba da damar jaddada gudummawa da buri na al'ummar Afirka ba amma har ma tana aiki don ƙirƙirar "yanayin gani wanda ke da ɗaɗawa da kuma tabbatar da rayuwa ga mutane masu launi" wajen bikin kyawawa 'yan Afirka na Amurka.

Ta sirin rayuwa 
Allen ta yi aure sau biyu kuma tana da ’ya’ya uku, Koryan, Josephine, da Tara. Ta mutu sakamakon bugun zuciya saboda rikitarwa na ciwon huhu a Los Angeles a ranar 9 ga Satumba, 2008.